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B-298859 1 (2006-12-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptassi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G a A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Squires Timber Company File: B-298859 Date: December 1, 2006 Tommy L. Norris for the protester. Lori Polin Jones, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's high timber sale bid was improperly rejected based on discrepancy between minimum advertised rate for particular species of timber and rate actually bid; since discrepancy is clearly negligible, protester's bid is responsive and pricing defect may be corrected as minor informality. DECISION Squires Timber Company protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive under the solicitation for the Devil's Club Timber Sale, conducted by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. We sustain the protest. The solicitation called for sealed bids offering to purchase various species of government-owned timber. Minimum acceptable rates were set forth for each species. For white oak sawtimber, the minimum acceptable rate was set at $33.22 per unit with an estimated quantity of 71 ccf (hundred cubic feet). Bids were opened on September 12, 2006, and Squires was the high bidder with an overall bid of $184,051.68. Winslow-Bateman Forestry was the second high bidder at $123,968.31. The agency noted, however, that Squires had bid only $26.09 per unit for the white oak sawtimber portion of the sale. Since this bid was below the minimum acceptable rate, the contracting officer rejected Squires' bid as nonresponsive and made award to Winslow-Bateman. Squires claims that it intended to bid the required minimum for all species, and that

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