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B-191658 1 (1978-06-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgdt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: M$4. /4 4 TH COMPTROLLE mINERAL OEOIBION - A: I . Op THE UNIEr rITATMS * * ** .. * , w A u H IN G T ON , a . 2. 2 0 r 2 4 5 FILE: B-191658 OATS: June 23, 1978 4'~~Q~~' 7 'TL p MATTER OFAAA Engineering & Draftingr Inc. DIGEST: 1. Contention that intended bid price of low * bidder claiming mistake in uncertain since worksheets show no provision for costs other than labor is of no merit where coats bid vim-a-via minimum labor rates applicable to'procurement tend to indicate truth of low bidder's statement that prices bid were factored to include all costs includirg over- head and profit 2. Contention that low bidder claiming mistake shoulJ have:computed costs on,basis of greiter number of ph6tos and related matter concerning whether bidder took into account total areas of performance goes to bIusiness judgment of bidder and involvies calculation of bid price, .not proper basis for correction or withlrawal of bid. Foreover, invitation gave no number in this regard. 3. Where uncertainty of intended bid price is within relatively narrow range and is merely small percentage of difference between second low bid and corrected low bid, uncertainty is too negligible to require withdrawal of bid, and award may be made on low bid as corrected. AAA Engineering & Drafting,. Inc. (AAA), protests award to any firm other than itself under United States Forest Seixvice (Shasta-Trinity National Forest) invita- tion for bids.(IPB) No. RS-14-78-10 for timber-type delineaticn, stand, classification, and transfer mapping at two designated areas. The IFS, as amended, set forth specific sections of the two areas to be covered by con- tract performance celled quadradgles comprised of up to four sheets--47 sheets for one area and 12 for the other. Originally the IPB stipulated 46 and 13 sheets. I A~.

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