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B-274859.2 1 (1997-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafrv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: R.P. Richards Construction Company; PW Construction, Inc. File: B-274859.2; B-274859.3 Date: January 22, 1997 C. Patrick Stoll, Esq., Herrig & Vogt, for R.P. Richards Construction Company, a protester. Paul G. Marshall, Jr., PW Construction, Inc., a protester. Hayes P. Haddox, Esq., and Robert W. Pessolano, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 Bidder is not entitled to bid correction under the mistake-in-bid rules for judgmental errors in using an inappropriate subcontractor quotation and in relying on its own estimate instead of a supplier quote for certain materials. DECISION R.P. Richards Construction Company requests correction, which had been denied by the agency, of the low bid price upon which it received award of a construction contract under Department of the Army (Corps of Engineers) invitation for bids (IFB) No. DACA27-96-B-0038. It alleges two clerical errors involving quotations received from subcontractors. PW Construction, Inc., the next low bidder, contends that Richards's bid should be rejected and that award should be made to P.W. Construction. We deny both the request for correction and the protest of the award to Richards. The IFB, issued July 15, 1996, requested bidders to submit prices for a base bid (which consisted of five items) and for each of five options. Bids were opened on August 29. Richards submitted the low bid with a total price of $10,731,000. Three other bids were received in the amounts of $12,627,003, $12,980,587, and $13,233.250. The government estimate for the work was $14,739,450. Subsequent to bid opening, Richards informed the agency by a letter of August 29 that it had made two clerical errors in computing its prices, and it requested that its total bid price be increased by $646,336. The specific errors concerned the structural steel work (including erection) in item 1 of the base bid and in the 434122

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