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B-283500 1 (1999-12-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajmp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Thorner Press, Inc. File: B-283500 Date: December 2, 1999 Anthony W. Hawks, Esq., for the protester. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Government Printing Office, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Bid cannot be corrected where price schedule contained a handwritten notation that materially lowered the quantity covered by the unit price and thus price bid was for significantly lower quantity than called for by invitation for bids. DECISION Thorner Press, Inc. protests the rejection of its apparent low bid as nonresponsive under invitation for bids (IFB) No. C887-S, issued by the Government Printing Office (GPO) for production of the Recovery Times Newsletter for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). We deny the protest. Bidders were required to submit unit prices for various line items of work associated with printing, binding, packing, storage and distribution of estimated quantities of the newsletters, which are published by FEMA to provide citizens with information and directions on where to get help in the event of an emergency or natural disaster. Among the work requirements listed as Additional Operations is gathering. IFB at 12 (line item 111(b)). Under this requirement, the contractor must gather for mailing multiple newsletters in varying sets of 2 to 12 or more for approximately 500 to 50,000 potential disaster relief applicants. IFB at 6. In the Schedule of Prices section (pages 11 and 12 of the IFB), bidders were to insert unit prices for required line items. The Determination of Award section (page 10 of the IFB) contained the estimated quantity for each line item. The solicitation advised that the low bidder would be determined by multiplying the unit prices by

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