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B-183654 1 (1975-08-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcnk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: *4 ~THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION I OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-183654 DATE: August 26,1975 MATTER OF: Slater Electric Company DIGEST: Where bid omitted price for one of 118 items, and bidding pattern for similar items showed consistent pricing, varying no more than $ . 02 regardless of difference in quantity or location of installation, bidder may be permitted to cure omission as rule requiring rejection as nonresponsive does not apply where bid as submitted indicates probability and nature of error and amount intended. Slater Electric Company (Slater) has protested against the rejection as nonresponsive of its bid under Specification DC-7100 issued by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior. Specification DC-7100 was issued to procure a 230-kilovolt phase shifting installation and a 345-kilovolt series capacitor bank installation at Liberty substation and at Mead substation. As initially stated, the bid schedule contained a total of 118 line items segmented into 3 parts, A, B and C, representing each of the 3 required installations. Supple- mental notice No. 2 to the specification provided a new bid schedule which altered some of the items of the original bid schedule and added two new items, 67A and 112A, for 600 feet and 1600 feet of 6 pair, No. 19 AWG shielded copper multiconductor control cable at the Liberty and Mead substations, respectively. Inadvertently the revised schedule failed to provide lines for insertion of either the unit or extended price of item 67A, although such lines were provided for insertion of a unit and extended price for item 112A. Thefour bids received under the specification were opened on April 2, 1975, and Slater was the apparent low bidder with a total project bid of $1, 426, 065, while W. D. Whinery, Inc. (now Electric Technology Corporation) of Tacoma, Washington, was the second lowest bidder with a bid of $1, 486, 646. However, Slater was advised by the contracting officer that its bid was nonresponsive for failure to bid on item 67A. (A unit and total price was included in the bid for item 112A.) Our decisions B-151332, June 27, 1963, and B-175740, July 5, 1972, were cited by the contracting officer in support of his determination. Slater timely protested to our Office and the Bureau has withheld award pending our decision. -1-

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