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B-184800 1 (1975-12-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcqh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL . ECISIC3111 OF THE UNITED STATES WAS.HINGTON. D. C. 20549 FILE: B-184800 DATE: December 10, 1975 MATTER OF: Vanbar DIGEST: Bid was properly rejected as nonresponsive where bidder returned amendment containing new schedule increasing quantity by 24 percent but failed to insert any prices .in amended schedule. Lack of a bid price for a sub- stantial portion of the requirement could not be waived as a minor informality. Hill Air Force Base issued invitation for bids (IFB) No. F42600-75-B-7455 on June 30, 1975, for a requirement of 5,348 tow targets. On July 3, 1975, the procuring activity issued Amendment 0001 to the solicitation which increased the required quantity by 1,302 units to 6,650 units without a concomitant extension of delivery time. The amendment provided bidders with a revised SecLion E, the Schedule,--which reflected the increased quantity requirements. At bid opening the contracting officer noted that, although the apparent low bidder, Vanbar, had returned Amendment 0001 with the IFB, Vanbar had entered unit and total prices only in the dereted, not the new, Section E and had failed to acknowl- L, -edge exprestly the receipt of the amendment in the manner speci- fied in block 9 of page 1 of the IFB (Standard Form 30). The contracting officer concluded that Vanbar's bid should be consid- ered nonresponsive and be rejected, because the IFB stated that offers on less than the total number of units specified would be considered nonresponsive, and because there was no indication that Vanbar had intended to bid on the total number of units. Vanbar protested award of a contract to any other company. Vanbar contends that through error, it had returned its unexecuted file copy of the amendment. Vanbar also argues that its failure . to fill in Amendment 0001 did not materially change its bid and that the error could be waived as a minor informality. - 1 -

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