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B-401841 1 (2009-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbbs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: iL G A O Comptroller General .,u in Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: BW JV1, LLC File: B-401841 Date: December 4, 2009 Joshua B. Levy, Esq., and Julie P. Wilson, Esq., Crivello Carlson, SC, for the protester. Helen Swietlik Henningsen, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly rejected bid of a joint venture that submitted a bid bond that states that it was executed by a corporation, which was one of the joint venture members, and the joint venture agreement provided that both joint venture members were required to execute the bid bond. DECISION BW JV1, LLC of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, protests the rejection of its bid by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under invitation for bids (IFB) No. VA-69D-09- IB-0319 for renovations at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee. The VA rejected BW JV1's bid as nonresponsive because the agency could not determine that the principal named on the bid bond was the same entity as that identified in BW JV1's bid. We deny the protest. The IFB required bidders to submit a bid guarantee, or bid bond, of not less than 20 percent of the bid price but not to exceed $3,000,000. IFB at 9. BW JV1 submitted the apparent low bid. Agency Report (AR) at 2. The protester's bid identified the bidder as BW JV1 of 2735 S. Krahn Road, New Berlin, Wisconsin, and was signed by Bruce Witt, President, and Keith Harenda,

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