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B-185474 1 (1976-11-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadehd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GIENS AL DECISIlO . . F THE UsuITED BTATEB WASHINGTON. 0.0. V0546 A FILE: D-185474 EATE: November 29, 1976 MATTER OF: Griffin Construction Company DIGEST: Where bidder for contract under grant fails to provide information called for by invitation as to amount of work to be performed by bidder and subcontractors, despite warnings in invitation that serious omissions might result in bid .rejection; grantee's rejection of low bid as nonresponsive a d concurrence by grantor agency had adequatid support, Griffin Construction Company ((riffin) has filed a complaint against the award of a contract by the city of Winter Haven, Florida, under a construction grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency-(EPA) pursuant to title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, 33 U.S.C. 55 1262, at seg., and implementing regulations at 40 C.F.R. part 35(E). The $8 million grant funds approximately 75 percent of the construction of a wastewater treatment plant. The instant complaint involves only the contract for construction of a 30-inch force main, the approximate cost of which is $1 million. Winter Haven solicited bids for the 30-inch force main. Griffin submitted the lowest bid at $1,051,538.25. Scott Cole Utilities, Inc., submitted the next lowest bid at $1,102,356.25. The city'o consulting engineera advised the city commission that Griffin's bid was nonre- sponsive for not furnishing information on (1) page E-14 of the invitation - 1 -

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