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B-400703 1 (2009-01-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadars0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im G A 0Comptroller General KA Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: SDV Construction Group, LLC File: B-400703 Date: January 7, 2009 James Baldino for the protester. Mark G. Machiedo, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST A bidder's failure to precisely follow instructions in invitation for bids for construction project with respect to how to enter bid prices for deductive bid items can be corrected as an obvious clerical mistake where the intended bid is evident from the face of the bid. DECISION SDV Construction Group, LLC of Denville, New Jersey protests the award of a contract to JR Services, LLC (JRS) of Washington, D.C., under invitation for bids (IFB) No. VA-243-08-IB-0383, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for construction work. SDV contends that the VA improperly permitted JRS to correct a mistake in its bid. We deny the protest. The IFB was issued as a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) set-aside to renovate the operating room suite at the VA Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. The amended IFB required bidders to submit separate bid prices for a construction base bid and five deduct alternates. The base bid was for the entire project without regard to the deduct alternates. For the deduct alternates, the IFB's bid instructions indicated that the price inserted for each alternate would represent the net price if the work described in the particular alternate were subtracted from the base bid. The award could be made for the base bid or any one of the deduct alternates. IFB amend. 4, at 2-5.

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