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B-291166.2 1 (2002-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoig0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: All Seasons Construction, Inc. File: B-291166.2 Date: December 6, 2002 Donald A. Tobin, Esq., and Nick R. Hoogstraten, Esq., Bastianelli, Brown & Kelley, for the protester. Andrew J. Kilpatrick, Jr., Esq., Gore, Kilpatrick, Purdie, Metz & Adcock, for Witherington Construction Corp., an intervenor. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting officer reasonably determined bid bond accompanied by power of attorney bearing computer printer-generated signatures unacceptable because signatures were not applied to the document after its creation and thus do not serve to authenticate its contents. DECISION All Seasons Construction, Inc. protests the rejection of its low bid under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 667-29-02, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the construction of operating rooms at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. The contracting officer rejected All Seasons' bid as nonresponsive based on her determination that neither the power of attorney attached to the protester's bid bond nor the accompanying certification attesting to the authenticity of the power of attorney and its continuing effectiveness was an original document. The protester contends that the document containing the power of attorney and certification was an original, and that the bid should therefore have been accepted. We deny the protest. The IFB required each bidder to submit with its bid a bid guarantee in the amount of 20 percent of the bid price or $3 million, whichever was less. IFB § 4.26. Four bids

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