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B-188065 1 (1977-02-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadejt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DUCUSISN S FILE: &-106S THU CMPW'EULLEU UWMd5S I OP TN UNITED STATUE WAUMINUTON. O.C. doEes DATE: ebaury 14, 1977 M4ATTER OF: Asan Idstale Corporation Where weight of im of -urplus property is significantly verstated in salea document and ales office is avare of aisdescrirtiton, contract price based on incorrect weight 'asy be refoned. The Defese logistics Agency (DLA) has. refered to this Office the data for -elief of Ansau Metals Corporation, the high bidder on itm 74, a ship prcp11sr, under surplus iles iuvitatidn for bids (1%) No. 417637A, issued by DLA's Defense Property Disposal Ragion, Ogden, Utsh. Although the propeller was of fered a. a unit, the IfB'iten decisutwon contained an estimate of its weight. Thus weight was estimated to be 34,900 poundsbut due io a typographical error the digits wara transposed and the wetght was listed in the IFB as 43,900 pounds. .The sales preparation office discovered the mis- take after tha iiviation had gone toprint, and so informed the sales office.in Ogden. The record sh6va that the sales office changed the weight on the property lit, but the contracting officer vas apparently not informed of the error and the itm description was never corrected. Anam Metals Corporation was awarded the contract for item 74 on April 6, 1976. The propeller was paid for and removed on May 25, 1976. By letters of. July 6, 1976, Ansm cvaplained that the propellur weighed only-15,960,pounds. Ania stated that it wanted the propeller for scrap metal and computed its bid at *.3923 per pound. It therefore requested a refund of $3,114.86, ein amount equal to the difference between the IfS'. estimated weight and the actual weight siltiplied by the per pound bid. Article BS of the invitation, vntitled Guaranteed Description, contains the following dit claimer: -1I- I. NMI'- 00l 0g ( a L L -I 4 4

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