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B-184308 1 (1975-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddtw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 FILE: B-184308 DATE: December 30,1975 MATTER OF: Ira Gelber Food Services, Incorporated ag' DIGEST: 1. Low bidder, after bid opening, cannot cure its failure to acknowledge receipt of an IFB amendment because to do so would be tantamount to permitting the submission of a second bid. Bidder's alleged non-receipt of amendment does not appear to have been the result of a deliberate effort to exclude bidder from competition. 2. Bidder's contention that amendment to IFB only repeated obligation required under original IFB's Site Visit clause, and therefore, its failure to formally acknowledge receipt thereof should be waived as a minor informality is without merit for while clause required bidders to inspect site so as to acquaint themselves with general and local conditions affecting cost of performance, clause did not impose legally enforceable obligation under IFB for bidder to provide bus transportation for employees as required by amendment and thus did not give Government same rights against bidder as it would possess under amendment. 3. Where only estimate as to value of invitation amendment is bidder's unsupported, self-serving statement, rejection of its bid for failure to acknowledge such amendment was proper, for in determining whether amendment has only trivial or negligible effect on bid price to permit waiver, it would be inappropriate to permit bidder seeking waiver to determine value as it would give him option to become eligible for award by citing costs that would bring him within de minimis rule or to avoid award by placing larger cost value on effects of amendment. - 1- PUBLISHED DECISIO! A55 Comp, Gen. .....***.

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