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B-281228.2 1 (1999-04-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajfq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: H. Angelo & Company, Inc. File: B-281228.2 Date: April 12, 1999 Michael C. Spring, Esq., Law Offices of David L. Swimmer, for the protester. Maj. Susan D. Tigner, Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Mistake in bid may not be corrected where the correction would result in the bid's displacement of two lower bids and the amount of intended bid cannot be ascertained from the bid and solicitation. DECISION H. Angelo & Company, Inc. protests an award to Robert Hall Associates, Inc. under invitation forbids (IFB) No. DABT1O-98-B-0023, issued by the Department of the Army for the installation of cross connection back flow prevention devices at Fort Benning, Georgia. Angelo argues that the agency failed to allow it to correct its mistake in bid so that its bid was not considered to be low. We deny the protest. The IFB anticipated the award of a fixed-price indefinite-quantity contract. IFB § L.10. The IFB bid schedule required bidders to insert unit and total prices for 574 individual contract line items (CLIN) in the base period (CLINs 0001-0185), option year one (CLINs 1001-1185), and option year two (CLINs 2001-2204). Each CLIN included a narrative of the item and its estimated quantity. The bid schedule also required bidders to insert an estimated aggregate amount for the base period and the two option periods, which would represent the total of all of the CLINs in each period, and the total estimate aggregate of the base and option periods. The bid schedule instructions required that bidders include unit prices for each CLIN and stated that in the event of a discrepancy between a unit price and an extended price the unit price would be considered to be the bid. IFB at B-1. The IFB provided that bids would be evaluated for award by adding the prices for all options to the price for the base period. IFB § L.21.

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