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B-282220 1 (1999-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajja0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Information Processing Services, hie. File: B-282220 Date: June 10, 1999 B.L. Hearn for the protester. Roberta M. Echard, Esq., Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, for the agency. Jeanne W. Isrin, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation provision contained several payment provisions, including requirement that bidders specify two of three payment methods they would accept from public in performing contract for copy services, and protester's bid omitted the solicitation section containing the provision, agency properly determined that protester's bid failed to show agreement to material requirement, and therefore was nonresponsive. DECISION Information Processing Services, Inc. (IPS) protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive, and the consequent termination of its contract as improperly awarded, under invitation for bids (IFB) No. B-001, issued by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for on-site photocopying and related services to the public at its divisional office in Alexandria, Virginia. We deny the protest. Section G.1 of the IFB, which dealt with collection of fees from the public for photocopy services, provided, among other things, that for payment the vendor was required to accept cash, money orders, and cashier's checks. It also required that the vendor accept, at no additional charge to the customer, and without any minimum order or minimum charge requirements, at least two of three additional methods of payment: (1) credit card; (2) check; or (3) customer billable accounts. The provision included two blank spaces where the bidder was to insert the two methods of the three that it would accept. The IFB required bidders to submit section G.1 with their bids. IFB § L.11(c)(iv).

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