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B-416502 1 (2018-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvcw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: G2G, LLC File: B-416502 Date: September 27, 2018 Timothy M. Connelly, Esq., Tim Connelly Law PLLC, for the protester. David W. Altieri, Esq., and Donald C. Mobly, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where an invitation for bids required submission of a bid guarantee, agency reasonably rejected protester's bid as nonresponsive where the bid bond was defective because it appeared to limit the liability of the corporate surety with respect to excess reprocurement costs in the event of contractor default. DECISION G2G, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business located in Rapid City, South Dakota, protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 36C263180038, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for a construction project at the VA Black Hills Healthcare Center in Fort Meade, South Dakota. The protester challenges the agency's rejection of its bid for failing to submit a valid bid bond. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the IFB on March 19, 2018, as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-aside. The solicitation sought bids for the relocation of sterile processing services from the basement of Building 113 of the Healthcare Center to the first floor of the surgical suites in the same building; renovation of vacated surgical rooms on the second floor; and relocation of the endoscopy department to the second floor. IFB at 1, 9. Bidders were required to submit a bid guarantee with their bids in the amount of 20 percent of the bid price, or $3 million, whichever was less. The IFB

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