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B-193071 1 (1979-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgul0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-193071 STHE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 // '1 ~ DATE: January 10, 1979 MATTER OF: National Reporting Company DIGEST: 1. By inference, paragraph 9 of Solicitation Instructions and Conditions, SF 33-A, attached to formally advertised supply and service contract, requires consideration of prompt payment discount offering 20-day time period in evaluation of bids for award. 2. Issue of propriety of applying prompt payment discount provision in evaluation of bids, in light of alleged tardy Government payment history, untimely when raised after bid opening. National Reporting Company (National) protests an award to Acme Reporting Company (Acme), as low bidder under solicitation No. 78-1184, issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board for reporting services. The bids were opened on September 27, 1978. Protest was filed in this Office on October 3, 1978. National contends that on the basis' of the bid prices submitted, it was low bidder, and that the agency erred in reducing the amount of Acme's bid price below that of National's subtracting the prompt payment discount offered by A o1 Acme's submitted bid. - - - Alternatively, the protester argues that paragraph 9 of SF 33-A prohibits consideration of a prompt payment discount in determining the lowest bid, and that if the discount provision does require such consideration, it should not be applied in the face of the Government's alleged tardy payment-history. ) Block 9 of t part. as follows: All offers he basic bid form, SF 33, reads, in pertinent are subject to the following: 1. The Solicitation Instructions and Conditions, SF 33-A. f 6)f / ~iJ V/ 111 D I V Le

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