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B-185058 1 (1976-08-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddiv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: C' q COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . :LJ . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-185058 ' DATE: Abgust 9, 1976 MATTER OF: Inflated Products Co., Inc., and Brunswick qgr72C c Corporation DIGEST: 1. Questions of legality of proposed contract award to be made by Government department presented to GAO for decision by official who is not department head, will - be decided as if department had submitted them under 31 U.S.C. § 74 (1970). 2. Request by procurement activity for GAO advance decision regarding legality of proposed award, will be decided and therefore question of timeliness of bid protest under Bid Protest Procedures is moot. 3. Where telex modification of bid does not indicate whether reductions for two items are to be applied to unit or total price, bid is ambiguous as it is reasonably susceptible of of two varying interpretations, under only one of which bid price would be low, and it would be prejudicial to other bidder to permit bidder who created ambiguity to select after bid opening interpretation to be adopted. Inflated Products Co., Inc. (IPI), protests any award of a contract to any other firm under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DAAK01-75-B-2145, issued on April 7, 1975, by the United States Army Troop Support Command (TROSCOM), St. Louis, Missouri. IPI contends that its firm should receive the award as the low responsive, responsible bidder. Counsel for IPI contends that if our Office rules against IPI on the merits the subject IFB should be canceled because the Army created an ambiguity by the amendment 00004 quantity changes. Counsel for Brunswick Corpora- tion (Brunswick) protests any award to IPI contending that any award to IPI would be unlawful on the grounds that its bid was not responsive to the terms and conditions of the IFB and that an award should be made to Brunswick as the low responsive bidder. - 1 -

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