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B-182754 1 (1975-02-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcex0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL. DECISION ~ OF THE UNITEo STATES WA SH IN GTON, O .C. 205 4 8 FILE: B-182754 DATE: February i8, 1975 MATTER OF: Chrysler Corporation DIGEST: 1. Statutory amendment which enables GSA to purchase additional automobile systems and equipment over and above basic vehicle price limitation, and which states additional equipment prices shall not be considered in determining if basic vehicle cost exceeds statutory price limitation, does not mean agency cannot examine price structure of bid to determine whether significantly high prices for additional equipment indicate attempt to circumvent basic price limitation, since it is unreasonable to conclude that Congress, in authorizing pur- chase of additional equipment, intended at same time to allow circumvention of statutory price limitation for basic vehicle. 2. Where IFB requires bids to be in accord with statute containing price limitation for basic vehicles and authorizing additional equipment purchases, and GSA finds price structure of bids indicates significantly high additional equipment prices, giving rise to inference that part of basic vehicle cost has been included in additional equipment price in attempt to circumvent statutory price limitation, reasonable basis is shown to reject bids as nonresponsive owing to defective bid price structure, even though stated reason for rejection-- material unbalancing of bids--is imprecise. Chrysler Corporation's protest involves the question of whether the General Services Administration (GSA) acted properly in rejecting Chrysler's bids under several solicitations for auto- mobiles because the bids were materially unbalanced so as to constitute a circumvention of the statutory price limitation for passenger motor vehicles. Though we do not agree that the issue here involves unbalanced bidding, we nevertheless find no basis for objection to GSA's rejection of the bids, and the protest is accordingly denied. The solicitations in question (Nos. FPML-P3-72902-A-l0-15-74, FPML-D4-71833-A-10-24-74, FPML-P5-76160-N-10-10-74 and FPML-P7- 77354-N-11-25-74) invited bids on a number of separate items - 1 -

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