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B-192595 1 (1978-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgkg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER WELRAL orsciioN 1 OFTHE UNITHO STATES111 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20b5490 OIEST: 1. Bid, clearly nonresponsive for failure to comply with bid acceptance period of IFB, does not raise genuine mistake for application of mistake-in-bid rules. 2. Request of procuring agency to obtain review by GAO of bidder's objection to agency's determination of nonre- aponsiveness is not a filing in GAO within meaninz of Bid Protest Procedures. 3. Error by agency in instructing apparent low bidder to follw mistake-in-bid procedures in pursuing objection to agency's determination of nonresponsiveness, and de- lay in forwarding bidder's request for review to GAO not prejudicial where protest clearly is without legal merit. By letter dated August 8, 1978, the Department of the Interior, sent here the administiative record concerning an alleged mistake in bid by Peter J. Giordano (Giordano) under Fish and Wildlife Service solicitation (IPB) No. FWS1-78-22, and requested our de- termination pursuant to section 1-2.406-4(g) of the Federal Pro- curement Regulations (rFPR). Bid opening Wa3 held on February 14, 1978. On that date Ll:,- Department informed Giordano of a determination that his bid was nonresponsive because it did not comply with the required bid acceptance period. On the face sheet of.the IFB, bidders were advised that bids were subject to various provisions and instructions, including Instructions and Conditions, Standard Form 33-A, which were either attached to the IFB or incorporated by reference in the schedule. In addition, the face sheet carried standard printed language relative to the period during which hids could be accepted rending, in part, as follows:

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