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B-188627 1 (1977-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfhm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: / THR COMPTROLLER GENERAL DWCIUION Fu S U T u e TATUS WASHINGN.n O.C. s2054 O FILE: B-188627 DATE: lovember 9, 1977 MATTER OF: I&W Stat Laboratory, Inc.; Qual-Md Associates, Inc.-- Request for Reconsideration DIGEST: Prior decision, holding that bidder's failure to acknowledge solicitation amendment may be waived, is affirmed where agency's request for reconsideration fails to show that amend- went had more than trivial.e!fect on price. By letter of October 12,'1977, the District of Colum- bia Department of General Services requests raconsidera- tion of our decision in &W Stat Laboratory, Inc.; qual- Hed Associates, Inc., 1-188627, August 26, 1977. In that decision, we held that the failure of B&W Stat Laboratory, Inc. (l6W) to acknowledge Addendum No. 2 Co Invitation for Bids No. 011-AA-65-0-7-BM should be waived as a minor informality under siction 2620.14 of the District of Columbia Procurement Regulatiors because it had no si-aif- icant effect on the solicitation's quality, quantity oc delivery terms and because its efkect on price ($209) was trivial in comparison with the protester's bid price ($145,460) and the difference ($198,939) between the pro- tester's bid price and that of the next highest bidder. Algernon Blair. Inc., B-182626, February 4, 1975, 75-1 CPD 76. The only substantive change made by Addendum No. 2 was in requiring the use of no-carbon required report forms instead of an original and three carbon copies. The D. C. Department of General Services contends that the cost of providing the forms required by Addendum No. 2 is not trivial and, therefore, failure to acknowledge the addendum may not be waived. In support of its position, the D. C. Department of General Services has submitted a memorandum from the printing branch of the D. C. Govern- ment indicating that the estimated cost of printing 43,000 4-part, no-carbon forms is $2,250.00. This is in line with - 1-

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