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B-261948 1 (1995-11-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptacdk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Shackelford Mechanical, Inc. File: B-261948 Date: November 1, 1995 William R. Purdy, Esq., Ott & Purdy, for the protester. Marilyn W. Johnson, Esq., and Cynthia S. Guill, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly determined that a bid bond was defective, and the bid therefore nonresponsive, where the surety's power of attorney authorizing the named attorney-in-fact to sign the bid bond on the surety's behalf contained an undated certification that the power of attorney had not been revoked, raising the question of whether the power of attorney had been revoked prior to the execution of the bid bond. DECISION Shackelford Mechanical, Inc. protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive, and the award of a contract to C.R. Hipp, Inc., under invitation for bids (IFB) No. N62467-94-B-0886, issued by the Department of the Navy for the extension of a natural gas piping system at Charleston Air Force Base, Charleston, South Carolina. We deny the protest. The Navy received four bids at bid opening on June 13, 1995. Shackelford submitted the apparent low bid of $1,465,947, and Hipp's bid was second low at $1,642,419. Along with its bid, Shackelford submitted the required bid bond on standard form 24. The bond was dated May 23, 1995, and signed by D.M. Ferris as attorney-in-fact for the surety, St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company. The bond was accompanied by a power of attorney from the surety listing D.M. Ferris as an attorney-in-fact. The power of attorney was signed by the secretary of the surety and notarized on October 25, 1994; however, the certification provision in the 'In the context of bid bonds, a power of attorney is the authority given one person, the attorney-in-fact, to act on behalf of a surety company in signing bonds. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 28.001. 736111

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