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B-295587 1 (2005-03-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqux0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Kenneth Ashe File: B-295587 Date: March 3, 2005 Kenneth Ashe, the protester. Lori Polin Jones, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Qualifying bid submitted in response to a solicitation for the sale of timber is responsive and the bidder was properly permitted to participate in the auction, where the bid included a unit rate, and the total bid can be calculated by multiplying the unit rate by the estimated quantity of timber stated in the solicitation. DECISION Kenneth Ashe protests the proposed award of a contract to Kenneth Fletcher by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture for the Fourmile Special Salvage Timber Sale in the Modoc National Forest.' Mr. Ashe contends that Mr. Fletcher's qualifying bid for this auction should have been rejected by the agency. We deny this protest. The prospectus for the sale called for the submission of sealed bids to purchase an estimated 215 thousand board feet (MBF) of ponderosa pine sawtimber marked or otherwise designated for cutting, and a nominal amount of white fir sawtimber to be removed at a fixed rate. The prospectus indicated that sealed bids would be accepted on December 17, 2004, and that an oral auction would follow. The bid form included a minimum acceptable bid rate (block 14(f)) of $22.77, and stated that there was an estimated quantity of 215 MBF salvage ponderosa pine sawtimber (block 14(d)). The bid form also stated that the minimum acceptable total sale 1 We consider this protest under 4 C.F.R. § 21.13(a) (2004) because the Forest Service has agreed to have protests of timber sales decided by our Office.

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