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DOCUMENT RESUME I
02606 - (A'.652633]
(Claim for Did Preparation COSts]. B-185755. June 3, 1977. 5 pp.
Decision re: Groton Piping Corp.; Thames Electric Co.; by Robert
F. Keller, Deputy Comptroller General.
Issue A ea: Federal Procurement of Goxds and Services (1900).
Contact: Office of the General Counsel: Procurement Law I.
Budget Function: General Government: Other General Government
(806).
Organization Concerned: Department of the Navy: Naval Submarine
Base, New London, CT.
Authority: Federal Tort Claims Act (28 '.S.C. 2671-2680). I
8-186481 (1976). Keco Industriee, Inc. v. United States, 492
F.Z!. 1200, 1203 (Ct. Cl. 1974). MCarty Corp. v. United
States, 499 F.2d 633, 637 (Ct. C1. 1974). Heyer Products Co.
v. United States, 140 F. Supp. 409, '412, 135 (1956).
continental Business tterptises v. United States, 452 F.2d
1016, 1021.
Two businesses engaged in a joint venture claimed bid
preparation costs for their bid submitted in response to an
invitation for bids (IFB) for utilities improvements at a naval
submarine base. Here negligence by the procuring activity is not
generally sufficient to support a claim for bid preparation
costs. The award to a large business, even though a small
business set-aside provision was inadvertently included in the
IFS of the protester, was not an arbitrary or capricious action
to justify a claim for bid preparation costs, since the evidence
indicates ro intent by the agency to restrict procurement to
small business, and no set-aside provision was incldded in the
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