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B-179222 1 (1973-08-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadjw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: a WMTTOLUfl GEHERAL OF THiE UITED 5T'P.TEh W t WAtt4GTOt D.C,, S4dS 1 3-179222 August 2, 1973 %mU Hoorable Rogers 0. 3. orton The Secretary of the Interior Dear r. Secretary; This Is in reply to the July 17, 1973 letter from the Deputy Amistant Secretary of the Interior (EUP-RO), forwarding the pro-- test of Couonwealth Electric Company against award to any other firm under the Bonneville Power Administration's inritation for bids Ko. 3411, along with your Department's recomeadation thereon, 'The in) was for the clearing and constrction of electric trnamtusiou lines known as the Carlton-Tillamook Line No. 1, The bid received fruw Coumowealth Electric li the total isunrnt of ' $1,703,700, was low, However, a detailed check of the mathematical computatlns involved with the 105 line itos revealed a discrepancy with respect to item number 98, which called for approxieately 1,340,000 pounds of steel. Coonwealth's bid indicated a wMlt price of 24 cents and a total Uina item price of $308,200. The contracting officer, treating the unilt price as controlling because the quantities specified in the bid achedula were only approximations and contract payaantd were to be based on unit prices for york actually performd, evaluated line Item 98 as n$321,600, which changed the total bid price fum 0 1,703,700, to $1,717,100. Aothar bidder, Pettijohn ,' Engineering Companyt Incorporatedo bid $1,710,408, and the con- tracting oificer plans to make sard to that company. Ckoonwealth, in its protest, clafm that it made au error in the a it price for iten 98 (which It clais should have bac 23 cants), not n the total line Item price or in the total bid price, and it ha. ,ibatt.ted its working papers and a lettr of explanation to show that the lino Item price of $308,200 was the intended bid. The gneral rule is that correction of an erroaceous bid v11 not be permitted if the correction would displace arother bidder ca the successful bldder, unless the error is obvious and the intended bfd price can be, acertained frca the bid itself. 50 Coup. Gem. 497 (1971) Here It ts obviouc that an error w made, but it is not mrident from the bid subitted by Commonve-th If the error was in. the tait prize or ba the line tie price. Therefore, correction df tbw bid would confer upon Comamuealth an tjfair cortetiti advantage, size It voulA be able to decide after bW d opwsg whethcv or not to L. ~ ~ 1'~ (2; 4 ~ AL....- -- Nwr i.(9 , 2O7 N e 9 9 9W 4 .% (9 *r *4 'ml V>t,.y I - 4\ It IC (N I I i o ,9,9/7/4/0

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