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B-285880 1 (2000-09-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaleo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Cooper Construction, Inc. File: B-285880 Date: September 18, 2000 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the protester. Christine S. Trafford, Esq., and Joseph J. Summerill, Esq., Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly denied request for bid correction is sustained where the worksheets submitted by the low bidder to support the claimed mistake in bid establish the existence of the mistake and the intended bid by clear and convincing evidence, and where the affidavit submitted along with the claim is entirely consistent with the worksheets. DECISION Cooper Construction, Inc., protests the decision by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, to deny its request to correct a mistake in its low bid under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 50703-4053, issued for demolition and the construction of a new accessible stair and elevator corridor at the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma. Cooper contends that the agency's decision was unreasonable. We sustain the protest. Bidders were required to submit a single lump-sum bid to perform the solicited work. The details of that work were set forth in narrative specifications and a set of drawings. IFB attach. II, III. On May 19, 2000, Cooper submitted the apparent low bid of $444,000. The remaining two bids were for $594,000 and $614,000.

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