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B-245417 1 (1992-02-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnzx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SAAR Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Bartomeli Company, Inc. File: B-246060 Date: February 10, 1992 V. Michael Simko, Jr., Esq., Simko & Elstein, for the protester. Robert E. Beeton, Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency acted improperly in continuing with bid opening and award is sustained where protester's bid was prematurely opened, read aloud, and recorded on an unrelated bid abstract 1 day prior to scheduled bid opening, and where agency failed to give sufficient time for protester to revise its bid. DECISION Bartomeli Company, Inc. protests the premature opening and disclosure of its bid, submitted pursuant to invitation for bids (IFB) No. 689-54-91, to construct and replace storm drains at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in West Haven, Connecticut. Bartomeli complains that its competitive price for the storm drain procurement was disclosed when VA mistakenly opened its bid 1 day prior to bid opening. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The facts in this protest are not in dispute. The IFB for VA's storm drain replacement project set bid opening for 10:00 a.m. on September 26, 1991. Bartomeli submitted its bid 1 day early. Upon receipt, the bid was stamped by the agency with the date and time--9:08 a.m., September 25--and placed in the facility's bid deposit box. -?S

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