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B-294395 1 (2004-09-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapoo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: RR Donnelley, Inc. File: B-294395 Date: September 15, 2004 Frederic G. Antoun Jr., Esq., for the protester. David T. Ralston, Esq., Foley & Lardner, for Banta Catalog Group, a division of Banta Corporation, an intervenor. Jennifer R. Seifert, Esq., Government Printing Office, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Awardee's bid including guaranteed maximum weights for each of two packages rather than a single guaranteed maximum weight, as called for by solicitation, was responsive; providing second guaranteed weight did not constitute exception to material solicitation requirement, and awardee's evaluated bid was low when calculated using only the greater of the two guaranteed weights. DECISION RR Donnelley, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Banta Corporation under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 303-013, issued by the Government Printing Office (GPO) for bids to print two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) publications. Donnelley complains that Banta's bid should have been rejected as nonresponsive. We deny the protest. The IFB requested bids to print, bind and otherwise prepare 3,994,000 copies of IRS pamphlet 1040A-1 (80 pages) and 2,947,000 copies of IRS pamphlet 1040A-2 (90 pages). The IFB provided that price would be evaluated by adding together the extended prices bid for the specified tasks and transportation charges. The IFB required bidders to provide a Guaranteed maximum weight of package (to 000.1 pound) --, which the agency used to compute the transportation charges. Donnelley bid $2,174,543 to perform the work and listed the guaranteed maximum weight of its package as .375 pounds. Using this weight, GPO computed Donnelley's transportation charges as $976,284.17, resulting in a total evaluated bid

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