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THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548
FILE: B-19 319 3 DATE: April 3, 1979
MATTER OF: Goodway Graphics of Virginia, Inc.
DIGEST:
[Bid which omitted price for 944- of for y items
as lroperry found -b@ Dontesponsive wh re
soliaitation kequired bidder to bid on all
items listed, because omission affected bid-
der's basic obligation to deliver supplies
being procured.
Goodway Graphics of Virginia, Inc. (Goodway) pro-
tests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive under
a U.S..Government Printing Office (GPO) solicitation
for Program 298-S, an annual requirements-type contract
for printing and binding. We find the Goodway bid to
be nonresponsive to the solicitation's express require-
ment that each bidder bid on all items listed.
The facts are as follows:
The solicitation required bidders to insert prices
in each blank on the schedule of prices in the soli-
citation and warned that failure to do so might result
the rejection of the bid as nonresponsive. The prices
requested were for various operations which might be
required for the manufacture of any -given publication
during the contract term, i.e., not all operations are
necessarily required for all publications. The solici-
tation provided that the basis of award would be lowest
total aggregate cost resulting from the application of
the prices bid to the GPO's estimate of its four month
requirements. GPO reports that the bids were abstracted
as follows:
BASIS OF AWARD
[4 months) [1 year]
Goodway -$47,051.10 [$141,153.301
Braceland Brothers, Inc. 56,444.33 [ 169,332.991
Federal Lithograph Co. 59,889.12 [ 179,667.36]](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadhcj0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)