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B-176673 1 (1973-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaducq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O) COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-176673 JAN . 1973 Curtis, Mllet - Prevost, Colt & MOsLe Attorneys at Law One Hndred Wall Street New York, New York 10005 Attention: Herbert Stoller, Esq, Gentlemen: Reference is made to your letter of July 2, 1972, with enl.o- ures, protesting on behalf of fttariss Research Corporation, the action of the National Aeronautics and Spate. Administration (NASA) in adding $7,674 to the low bid submitted by Vooke Vacuum Products, Inc., under invitation for bids No. 1-51-2709, and in making an award on that basis to the low bidder. The copy of the administrative report sent to you by NASA advised that the addition vas mAe to correct an error in bid and explained the basis for the correction. The report indicates that Cooke failed to include in its lz*-sum bid price the cost of the repired vtcuum pnm* station which It had estimted as being $7,*723. In support of itt allegation of error and Its intended bid price, Cooke submitted the specifications and the original worksheets used in computing its bid price. The worksheets co=sist of a two-pMge listing tf mterial and labor and other cost elements totalig $35195, with the mount of $34,94 entered directly beneath the computation and marked 14d.' A .628 percent reduction in priet vu zade by the corportion for cm- petitive reasons. At the top lott-han corner of page I of the work- sheets is the entry Pump Sta 7723. !Me worksheet shows that the figure 7723 was not extended into the amnmt coltmn with the result such figure was omitted from the aggregate total bid price. The cor- poration also submitted a cost eatimate on a Standar 6 Pumping Sys- tam which shows a total price of $7,723--the amunt showm on its, worksheet. In correcting t4e Cooke bid, NASA increased the amount thereof by $7,674 rather than $7,723--a difference of $49 or +628 per- cent of $7,723. We are advisd that the aznt of the requested increase was decreazed by $49 or .628 percent because Cooke's work- sheets show that it reduced its total price by that percentage for bidding purposes. On the basis of the foregoing, the Cooke bid was corrected without affecting its status as low bidder. You contend that a pump station of the kind nrcessary to comply with NASA specifications could not possibly, in accordance with sound -' • ~~~~.............. ............t-: . ... . ':

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