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B-186600 1 (1976-09-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcxq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-186600 DATE: September 29, 1976 MATTER OF: Chrysler Motors Corporation DIGEST: Where agency notifies offeror, by telephone, of relaxation of solicitation requirements on the same day that best and final offers are due and only written evidence of conversa- tion is ambiguous, GAO cannot conclude that offeror was given an equal opportunity to compete for contract.. Chrysler Motors Corporation (Chrysler) has timely protested to our Office following the rejection of its initial protest to the General Services Administration (GSA) against the awarding of a contract to AM General Corporation (AM General) for police patrol vans under request for proposals (RFP) No. FYPH-M5-A-5952-N-4-27-76. Both the initial protest to the agency and the subsequent protest to this Office were grounded on Chrysler's assertion that GSA had materially varied a portion of the solicitation's requirements to its detriment and without its knowledge by reducing the gross vehicle weight (GVW) requirement for the patrol vans for 8,500 pounds to 8,000 pounds. GSA admits the reduction, but counters that Chrysler was informed by telephone of the change in the requirements on the morning of the day set for best and final offers. AM General, one of the two offerors, submitted an offer which lowered the GVW of the patrol vans from the 8,500 pounds specified to 8,000 pounds. The protester's offer was premised upon an 8,500- pound vehicle. Upon receipt of initial proposals, GSA notified the user, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), of the sum and substance of the two proposals received including the fact that AM General had offered an 8,000-pound vehicle in lieu of a 8,500- pound vehicle. INS was also advised of a discrepancy between the funds committed and the actual bid prices received * * *. INS decided, in light of the above, that an 8,000-pound vehicle would meet its minimum requirements. GSA states that on the next day, whiCh--also was the day set for best and final offers, it advised Chrysler by telephone of the Kelaxed requirement and that Chrysler declined to change its price. Chrysler denies ever receiving the information with respect to the relaxed requirements. - 1 -

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