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B-274930 1 (1996-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaenf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Nabholz Building and Management Corporation File: B-274930 Date: November 21, 1996 James C. Baker, Jr., Esq., Friday, Eldredge & Clark, for the protester. Maj. Margaret S. Bond, Lt. Col. David S. Franke, and Col. Nicholas P. Retson, Department of the Army, for the agency. Tania L. Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that bid schedule in solicitation for construction contained an ambiguity which led the protester to mistakenly include its bond costs under both a base bid line item and a bond costs line item is denied where the bid schedule clearly instructed bidders to set forth their bond costs separately, in a line item set aside for that purpose, and the language in a referenced clause reiterated and explained that instruction; the protester's interpretation unreasonably reads into the solicitation language which is not present and ignores language which is present. DECISION Nabholz Building and Management Corporation protests the award of a contract to Flynco, Inc. under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DAHA03-96-B-0001, issued by the United States Property and Fiscal Officer for Arkansas for the construction of a base supply complex at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. Nabholz argues that the solicitation's bid schedule contained an ambiguity which led the firm to mistakenly include its bond costs under two separate line items. We deny the protest. The solicitation's bid schedule contained the following line items: ITEM DESCRIPTION 0001 Base Supply Complex, BASE BID (Does not include additive bid items listed below) 0002 Additive Bid Item 1 0003 Additive Bid Item 2 0004 Additive Bid Item 3 5131121

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