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B-278514 1 (1998-02-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahow0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Banknote Corporation of America, Inc. File: B-278514 Date: February 4, 1998 Hopewell H. Darneille, III, Esq., and Brett Bacon, Esq., Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, for the protester. Kerry L. Miller, Esq., Government Printing Office, for the agency. Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation provision called for a 180-day bid acceptance period and clearly advised bidders to disregard a standard form provision (contained elsewhere in the solicitation) requesting a minimum 60-calendar day bid acceptance period, bid offering a 60-calendar day bid acceptance period was properly rejected as nonresponsive. DECISION Banknote Corporation of America, Inc. protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive under an invitation for bids (IFB) for Program No. D381-S, issued by the Government Printing Office (GPO) for the printing of social security cards. GPO rejected the bid because it did not contain the minimum bid acceptance period required by the solicitation. We deny the protest. The IFB was issued on July 17, 1997. Page one of the solicitation provided as follows: BIDDERS PLEASE NOTE: THE MINIMUM TIME PERIOD FOR ACCEPTANCE OF BIDS ON PROGRAM D381-S BY THE GOVERNMENT IS 180 CALENDAR DAYS. TO BE RESPONSIVE, A BIDDER MUST INSERT IN THE BID ACCEPTANCE PORTION OF GPO FORM 910 A BID ACCEPTANCE PERIOD OF 180 DAYS OR MORE. IT IS CAUTIONED THAT IF THE BIDDER MAKES NO ENTRY A BID ACCEPTANCE PERIOD OF 60 CALENDAR DAYS WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE APPLIED AND THE BID WILL BE RENDERED NONRESPONSIVE. Form 910, a standard form furnished by GPO to the bidders with the solicitation, stated as follows:

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