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B-283830 1 (1999-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajnm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: h -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Overstreet Electric Company, Inc. File: B-283830; B-283830.2 Date: December 30, 1999 Benjamin J. Overstreet for the protester. Joan K Fiorino, Esq., and Valinda J. Astoria, Esq., Douglas & Barnhill, for BMAR & Associates, Inc., the intervenor. Lt. Col. Richard B. O'Keeffe, Jr., and Matthew W. Bowman, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of this decision. DIGEST 1. Amendment to invitation for bids for construction services that reduces the minimum integrated short circuit rating for the required panelboards had the effect of decreasing the performance requirements and cost, and thus is not a material amendment, such that the agency can properly waive a bidder's failure to acknowledge it as a minor informality. 2. Invitation for bids that contained general references to load centers, but did not provide detailed specifications for load centers, and contained specific specifications for panelboards, which perform the same types of functions as load centers, must reasonably be interpreted as requiring the specified panelboards. DECISION Overstreet Electric Company, Inc. protests the award of a contract to BMAR & Associates, Inc. under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DABT23-99-B-0039, issued by the Department of the Army for the renovation of electrical services at Van Voorhis Family Housing, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Overstreet protests that BMAR's bid should be rejected for failing to acknowledge an amendment and that a mistake in Overstreet's bid should be corrected. We deny the protest.

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