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B-290710 1 (2002-09-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaogu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Delta Timber Company File: B-290710 Date: September 6, 2002 Ruth G. Tiger, Esq., Saltman & Stevens, for the protester. Lori Polin Jones, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly accepted a bid submitted in response to a solicitation for the sale of timber where the bid prices, although changed and not initialed by the bidder prior to bid opening, were legible and the bid was thus not ambiguous. DECISION Delta Timber Company protests the proposed award of a contract to Thompson Logging by the Department of Agriculture for the Middle Mountain Timber Sale.' Delta contends that Thompson's bid was ambiguous with regard to price and should have been rejected by the agency. We deny the protest. The prospectus for the sale called for the submission of sealed bids to purchase two species of timber listed as 4,015 hundred cubic feet (ccf) of Live and Dead Aspen & Other and 35 ccf of Live and Dead True Fir. Agency Report (AR), Tab A, Timber Sale Prospectus. To complete their bids, bidders were required to enter a bid rate for each of the two species of timber. Award was to be made to the highest-priced, responsible bidder who submitted a responsive bid. 1 We consider this protest under 4 C.F.R. § 21.13(a) (2002) because the Forest Service has agreed to have protests of timber sales decided by our Office. Big Valley Lumber Co., B-221181, B-221182, Apr. 2, 1986, 86-1 CPD 313 at 2 n.1.

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