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B-207313 1 (1982-05-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkhd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I DECKSION it M3ENERAL 7 STAT ES II %.A. Aq-1I NO(3 T ON , D0C. 0. 5 4 8 B-207313 DATE: May 6, 1982 MATTER OF: Columbia Pacific Construction Co DI GEST; GAO concludes that the low bid may be corrected because the record contains clear and convincing evidence showing that (1) the low bidder made a mistake in converting the supplier's quote measured in cubic yards to cubic meters (the unit of measure used in the IFB), (2) the mistake was dividing instead of multiplying by the conversion factor, and (3) the intended price is readily ascertainable. The Department of Transportation requests an advance decision concerning an alleged mistake in the low bid submitted by Columbia Pacific Construc- tion Co. (Columbia) relative to invitation for bids (IFB) No, 82-8-Rl7 for the Santiam Highway project in the Willamette fPational Forest, Oregon. We conclude that the bid may be corrected. ..-I The IFB called for unit prices based on metric measurements, One item required a specific number of cubic meters of structural concrete. Columbia's bid price was $300 per cubic meter. After bid opening, Columbia advised Transportation that it had made a mistake in the structural concrete item (one of the elements used as a basis for the $300 unit price) in not correctly converting the concrete supplier's quote based on cubic yards to cubic meters, the unit of measurement used in the IFB. Columbia explains, in the affidavit of its president, that it divided by the conversion factor when it should have multiplied by the conversion factor. Specifically, Columbia took its concrete quote of 554.50 per cubic yard and divided by 1.31 to get $41.53 per cubic meter, whereas Columbia It'd * II '~ ~ 'I A' I * . . . , I I * . . . .. * ~ p.~ .. --..u. *.ttrr.ct-r9t-*.I.t.trqw*~~.yt 'p 14 * A I I 4 ~.t. a. *'~II~* ~q*Iq. .. 'I. * S I I ) THEI 13r THE UNITUD FILE; *1 I .1 I, ~ .1 *1 I.

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