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B-274319 1 (1996-11-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaelm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Consolidated Contracting & Engineering File: B-274319 Date: November 6, 1996 Raymond H. Royce, Esq., Royce & Brain, for the protester. Richard C. Harding, Esq., and Marian Sullivan, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency acted reasonably in waiving a bidder's failure to acknowledge an amendment that had no material effect on bidder's obligations. 2. A bidder's failure to initial changes in a bid is a matter of form that may be considered an informality and waived if the bid leaves no doubt as to the intended price. This rule also applies where changes in the bid are initialed by someone other than the person who signed the bid. DECISION Consolidated Contracting & Engineering protests the award of a requirements contract to Marenco, Inc. to replace fire alarm systems at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, under invitation for bids (IFB) No. F65501-96-B-0003, issued by the Department of the Air Force. Consolidated asserts that Marenco's low bid should have been rejected as nonresponsive because Marenco failed to acknowledge a material amendment to the solicitation. We deny the protest. The IFB was issued on May 23, 1996, and was amended six times prior to bid opening. The IFB, as originally issued, required a performance bond with a penal amount of 100 percent of the contract price, but not to exceed $1 million. Amendment No. 0002, among other things, reduced the bond requirement to 20 percent of the bid price, but did not include a revised bid schedule. Amendment No. 0007 (in actuality the sixth and final amendment) replaced two pages of the bid schedule, the only effect of which was to reflect that amendment No. 0002 had lowered the bond requirement from 100 percent/$1 million to 20 percent of the bid price. 1052116

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