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B-183642 1 (1975-05-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcjx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-183642 I I DATE: May 20, 1975 MATTER OF: Grimaldi Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc. DIG EST: 1. Maintaining employee morale of two affiliated firms and good business relations with subcon- tractors are legitimate business reasons to submit two bids by affiliated concerns for IFB to replace steam plant and rehabilitate elec- trical distribution and does not violate certification of Independent Price Determina- tion, since there is no evidence that multiple bids provided unfair competitive advantage or was prejudicial to Government or other bidders. 2. Multiple bidder had no option to obtain award at higher bid in anticipation that it would not perform on low bid contract requirement that 20 pr -cnt of work I---- done with on forcs, cinee it committed itself to perform in accordance with specifications by bidding without exception and could be required to perform in accordance with 20 percent requirement. Counsel for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command .(Navy) has requested that our Office decide the protest submitted to it by the Grimaldi Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc. (Grimaldi). The protest was submitted in connection with invitation for bids (IFB) N62467-73-B-0550 to replace a steam plant and rehabilitate the electrical distribution of the Naval Support Activity in New Orleans, Louisiana. Of the eight bids received, Grimaldi's was second low at $988,000. Neptune Construction Co. (Neptune) was low at $984,214. The sixth low bid of $1,140,171 was submitted by Resor Plumbing & Heating (Resor). Grimaldi protests on the grounds that since Neptune and Resor are commonly owned their bids were not arrived at independently. This is alleged to violate the certification of Independent Price Determination. - 1- 04q7 zr -S THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL * OF THE UNITED STATES ;7 WAS HIiNGTON, D. C. 20548 I 4 A ? 7 ?,- ?,-

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