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B-189991 1 (1977-11-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfko0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -. THE CCMPTROLLER GENSR AL DECISION d z,. OF TmE UN ITIE BTATES W A s HIN GrON . 0 . a s054 --I, C) FILE: B-189091 DATE: November 28, 1977 MATTER OF: Red Carpet Building Maintenance Corp. DIGEST: Rejection of bid for failure to furnish required bid guarantee is proper notwithstanding allegation that protester's bid package did not include page containing bid guarantee provision, since omission was apparently inadvertent and protester should have queried procurement office prior to submission of bid in view of cover page of solicitation which called ldders' attention to clause allegedly not included. Red Carpet Building Maintenance Corp. (Red Carpet) protests the awar of any contract under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DAKFO3-77-B-0081, issued by the Department of the Army, Procure- ment Divibion (Army), Fort Ord, California, on August 1, L977. The IFB calld for custodial services to be provided at four Southern California U.S. Army Reserve Centers, each of which was listed as a separate line item in the solicitation schedule, Section D-1 of the IFB authorized multiple awards when that would result in the lowest aggregate price to the Gcvernmtnt, The record indicates that 10 bids were received in response to the IF8. Red Carpet submittec' tbh low bid for Item 0001 and in the aggregate. Howevemr, the bid from Red Carpet was submitted without a bid bond and was determined to be nonresponsive for fail- ure to comply with the bid bond requirement of the IFB. Red Carpet then protested to this Office, alleging that the bond requirement was not clearly indicated in the IFB 3nd requesting that the Government set aside the requirement and award all or part of the contract to Red Carpet. Subsequently, after determining that multiple awards would be advantageous to the Government, the Anay awirded a contract to Fax & Fox Maintenance and Janitorial Service fo Items 0002, 0003 and 0004, on which Red Carpet had not been the low bidder. The Army reports that it intends to award a contract for Item 0001 to Amerik Co., the low responsiv.e bidder on that item, although award is being withheld pending resolution of this protest. -1 -

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