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B-178839 1 (1973-10-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadeq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 400--1* I . 17 8 , 0 s i #r1 ~0 0 *} 31478839 October 10 1973 S. • 9 Proier Roofing Co'zpa, Inc.E9 178 Front Avenue - West Raven, Connecticut 0616 Attentions Mr. Michael L. eFbiberg Be.*Metary-(eneral Counsel Centlemen: This is in reference to the June 6, 1973, telegram frm your firm (Premier), and subsequent correpondenco, protesting against the rejection of your bid as nonresponsive;pursuant to construction project No. NA-0-73-50 issued on May 7, 1973, by the Veterans Administration (VA) Iopital, West Haven, Connecticut. biids w.. solicited for two items--Alternate Ko. called for labor, equipment, and material necessary for replacing approximately *Ig•h 29,200 sq. ft. of built-up roofing, and Alternate No. 2 called for . labor, equipment, and material necessary for replacing approximately 4L109 sq. ft. of built-up roofing. Premier submitted the low bid for both items at 465,560, but was considered nonresponzive by the Contracting Officer for its failure to fil out and return with its bid the enclosed Bid Conditions portion of the Now H1aven Plan. Standard Bid Form 21, (contruction Contract), on which the bid was submitteds carried the printed notation: OME ATTACMED N1JMfl PI IS MADE A PART 0? THIS IITATION AN FAIM TO JiETURN SIGNeD COPIES OF MEW HAVI PLAN WITH THE DID WILL RESULT IN THE DIDDER BEIG DEOLARW f iON-RESPOSIV6. The New Haven Plan haa been approved by the Department of Laborta Office of'Federal Contract Ccpliance (OFCo) as an appropriate program to implement the training of ninorities in the construction industry. The Plan incorporates a scheme vhereby signatories thereto progressive- ly increase minority representation in their reisotive construction osmpanles. It t Premiertn position that it# failure to complete and return the Bid Condition-Affirmative Action RWquirwAnts provision incorpo- rated in the IB was a mare technical oversight and should not be a fatal error. .4 a basis for this position Premier pointd out that it hris been a member of the Now Haven Plan since its inception ( and* thnrefore, was bound by all rulesoand naqudrnments of the Plan tt~wcA4-+ Se . .

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