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B-402227 1 (2010-01-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbdb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL .L A GA O Comptroller General .,u in Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: TJ's Marine Construction LLC File: B-402227 Date: January 7, 2010 Tobin J. Tetterton for the protester. M. Brooke Lamson, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where an invitation for bids required the submission of a bid guarantee, agency properly rejected protester's bid as nonresponsive where protester's bid bond contained a copy of the surety agent's signature. DECISION TJ's Marine Construction LLC of Belhaven, North Carolina, protests the rejection of its bid by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) under invitation for bids (IFB) No. W912HN-09-B-0020 for the replacement of breakwaters at Belhaven Harbor in North Carolina. USACE rejected TJ's Marine's bid because the protester's bid bond contained a copy of the surety agent's signature. We deny the protest. The IFB required bidders to submit a bid guarantee, or bid bond, in the amount of 20 percent of the bid price or $3,000,000, whichever was less. IFB at 19. Bidders were informed that an original and two copies of sealed bids were required, and the solicitation did not authorize submission of bids either electronically or by facsimile. Id. at 1, 12; Legal Memorandum at 2. TJ's Marine, which submitted the apparent second low bid,' provided a bid bond that 1 The apparent low bid was rejected as nonresponsive for reasons that are not relevant to this protest. See Contracting Officer's Statement at 2.

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