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B-279380 1 (1998-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahsj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Stanger Industries, Inc. File: B-279380 Date: June 4, 1998 Sharon K Stanger for the protester. Monica Allison Ceruti, 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 Agency improperly rejected as nonresponsive a low bid that acknowledged all amendments to an invitation for bids (IFB), but used an unamended bid schedule which had been corrected by amendment to indicate that a requirement for periodic preventive maintenance should contain a monthly unit price entry and an extended price entry for the 9-month requirement rather than simply a lump-sum entry, where the bid commits the contractor to perform in accordance with the precise IFB requirements at the low price. DECISION Stanger Industries, Inc. protests the rejection of its bid under invitation for bids (IFB) No. F41689-98-B-0001, issued by the Department of the Air Force, Air Educational and Training Command Contracting Squadron, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, for commissary refrigeration upgrade and periodic preventive maintenance and emergency repair for commissary refrigeration systems and heating ventilating and air conditioning systems at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. We sustain the protest. The IFB, issued on November 17, 1997, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract and contained a bid schedule listing five line items with a description of the required work, a quantity and unit designation, and spaces labeled unit price and amount for each item, along with one space calling for a total of the amount entries as the bid total. Line item No. 0002 was for providing all necessary equipment to perform the contract and line item No. 0003 was for periodic preventive maintenance in accordance with the solicitation requirement at section 15995 that preventive maintenance commence 60 days after the notice to proceed was issued by the contracting officer and continue until 90 days after the final

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