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B-181439 1 (1975-05-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcju0001 and id is 1 raw text is: P THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20549 . 27-)73 FILE: B-181439 DATE: May 27, 1975 MATTER OF: Aerospace America, Inc., Request for Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Contracting officer's telegraphic verification of bid, which stated that firm's bid prices were considerably lower than Government estimate and that considerable disparity between firm's bid prices and those submitted by other bidders existed, comported with ASPR require- ments. Request for bid verification need not be in specific language set out in ASPR. 2. Where contracting officer states that request for verification disclosed bid prices to low bidder but bidder-claimant does not recall any such disclosure on balance, statements must be accepted as correct since bidder-claimant has not specifically denied them but relies on lack of recollection and absence from its files of any confirming memorandum some 18 months after the event. 3. Failure to disclose Government's budgetary estimate in course of bid verification is not fatal to contracting officer's fulfillment of his verification duty where disparity between low bid and bid of next low bidder is greater than disparity with estimate. 4. Where bidder's verification of bid responded to only one suggested area of possible mistake but contracting officer was satisfied that all other cost elements of bid had been reviewed and confirmed prices were in line with average bid prices received in preceding four solicitations, it was not incumbent upon contracting officer to seek reaffirmation. - 1 -

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