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B-196543 1 (1981-03-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjgd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~ ~.THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION KOF THE UNITED STATE S WASHINGTON. 0 C.20 548 FLE: B-196543 OATE: March 25, 1981 MATTER OF: Iberville Services, Inc.--Reconsideration OIGEST: Despite on-the-spot verification, contract reformation based on mistake in bid discovered after award may be allowed where contracting officer still should have had reasonable doubt as to correctness of bid price because record shows that total bid price was 14.3 percent below Government estimate and bid on alternate 2 was substantially below Government esti- mate for that work but bidder was not so advised. Payment may be made on quantum valebant or quantum meruit basis for reasonable value of service and materials actually furnished, not to exceed amount claimed. Iberville Services, Inc. (ISI), requests recon- sideration of our decision in the matter of Iberville Services, Inc., B-196543, July 11, 1980, 80-2 CPD 25, which denied ISI's claim for contract reformation. ISI and the contracting agency have provided certain new and clarifying information which presents a substantially different situation from the one con- sidered in the July 11, 1980, decision. After con- sidering the new information, we conclude that ISI's claim should be allowed; the prior decision is modified accordingly. The record in the prior decision revealed that the Federal Energy Administration's (now the Depart- ment of Energy (DOE)) invitation for bids (IFB) No. 13-70150--for certain fill construction at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve's Bayou Choctaw storage complex--required, among other tasks, the furnishing

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