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B-409208.2 1 (2014-04-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqfc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: f\ G A 0Comptroller General ~ty * Integrity * Rellability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Hamilton Pacific Chamberlain, LLC File: B-409208.2 Date: April 3, 2014 Griffin Hamilton, for the protester. Tony A. Ross, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where, although low bidder failed to bid on alternate item that was not selected for award by the procuring agency, low bidder submitted valid bid for base item actually awarded, and its bid was therefore responsive. DECISION Hamilton Pacific Chamberlain, LLC, doing business as HPC, LLC, of Waldorf, Maryland, a small business, protests the award of a contract to BES Design/Build, LLC, of Fairhope, Alabama, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under invitation for bids (IFB) No. VA245-13-B-0272 for construction services at the VA Medical Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia. HPC argues that the VA should have rejected the bid submitted by BES as nonresponsive. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The VA issued the IFB on July 22, 2013, seeking bids to renovate Building 415B at the VA Medical Center. The IFB was set aside for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB). Before bids were due, the VA issued five amendments to the IFB. As relevant to the protest, amendment 2 modified the statement of work and established two bid line items, among other things. As amended, line item 1 remained the base bid line item, while the new line item 2 was expressly labeled as an alternate deductive item. The line 1 base bid provided for the renovations of the building, while the

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