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B-192456 1 (1978-10-12)

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                        THE  COMPTROLLER     UENEAL
              ph        OF   THR   UNITED    STATES
                        VV WAU0H1INWTON, J.C. .  C54E



FILE:        B-192456         DATE:   October 12, 1978

MA'TER  OF:      BASF Systems, Inc.


DIGFnET:
  1*

  1.  Didder's failure to submit required list
      of errors along withsample disk'pack or
      to indicate in bid that sample was tested
      for ertors and contained none whre'Govern-
      ment was not in psltion to test disk pack
      for location of errs  is cause for re-
      jection as nonrespanilve. Documentation is
      necessary to enable'procuring activity to
      usef!item and to evaluate bid to determine
      whethrr item conftrms with Government's
      stated technical requirements.

 2.  Bidder relies on oral advice regarding terms
     of solicitation at its own risk.


     The Division 'bf Data Processing'of.the U. 5.
Department of the Treasury'i Bureau of Government
Pinaicial Operations t-reasury), issued 'an invitation
for Bids (IfB) No. BGFO-79-15 for the procuremehrt of
a quantity of disk packs capable of operation on both
IBM and Honeywell brand lisk drives.

     The IPB, as amended, required bidders to submit,
as part of their bids, onedisk  pack as a bid sample
to be evaluated to determine compliance.with all tech-
nical requirements. kiditionally, the following por-
tion of the IFB required submission of data with the
bid:
     Each (dikj  pack (including the sample)
     must be provided with an error listing for
     that pack locating both correctable and un-
     correctable errors * * *.f (Emphasis added.)

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