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B-272267 1 (1996-08-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeil0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Peter J. O'Brien & Company File: B-272267 Date: August 29, 1996 Joseph J. Griseta, Esq., Simon & Spitalli, for the protester. Phillipa Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Wm. David Hasfurther, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST An unsigned Standard Form 1442 does not render a bid nonresponsive where the bid is accompanied by an executed certificate of procurement integrity and a signed bid bond that refers to and clearly identifies the bid. DECISION Peter J. O'Brien & Company protests the acceptance of the bid submitted by Chicagoland Paving Inc. on Department of Veterans Affairs invitation for bids (IFB) No. 578-12-96. O'Brien contends that the bid should have been rejected because it was not signed when the bid was opened at the public bid opening. We deny the protest. Bids submitted in response to the IFB were opened on May 8, 1996. At the bid opening, the contracting officer noted that the first page, Standard Form (SF) 1442 (Solicitation, Offer, and Award), of Chicagoland's bid was not signed and dated by the bidder. The contracting officer, however, concluded that this omission constituted a correctable minor informality since the procurement integrity certification and bid bond both were signed by Win. R. Bowes on behalf of the company. The contracting officer requested the bidder's representative in attendance at the bid opening to sign the bid.1 1The protester alleges that the signature of Wm. R. Bowes on the SF 1442 does not match the signature on the certification and bond. While the agency does not identify the representative who attended the bid opening and subsequently signed the SF 1442, it appears that it was not Wm. R. Bowes and that the company representative merely signed William Bowes on the SF 1442, rather than his own (continued...) 329829

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