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B-187841 1 (1977-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadell0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I THU COMPTI53LLn UENMAL DWOWIN .op ir-%a uhaToa11 STATUe WAEHINOTON. C.C. t0g4u FILE: B-187841 DATE? Marc 23, 197f MATTIER OF: Hugh Maher DIGEST: Agency dtd aot abuse iti discretion in rejecting bid by individual who was employed by contracting activity at time he submitted his bid. -Hugh Maher (Maher) has protested the rejection by the Dep'Artment at Ce Army of a bid by Hiugh Maher & Sons to provide garbage removal services at West Point, New York. Maher asserts that the agency iheorrectly found that he was not a rempoaIble bidder due to his employment by the Govern- ment at the time he submitted his bid. On Septembe- A3, 1976, theUnifed Stte Military Academy issued TB No. DAHCO2-76-B-1771, xcquesting bids for garbage removal services at several public biuldijis and fimily housing areas in West Point and Ne4burjh, New, York. Bids were open- ,ed onzSeptember 28, 1976. The bid of'HU#h Maher & Sons, sigred by Huh' Maher,: owier was the 1or bid on three of the iter.e. On September 30. 1976, ifugh Mather visited he -Contract- ing'Officer comp~alning that hehad been informed by a c6ntract specialist that he was not a responsible bidder gidice he was a government employee. Maher statel that it was his intention to reaign from his temporary employment wit the government if awarded the contract. On November 12, 1976, Maher protested to Out Office the rejection of his bid and thri award of the contract iems to high- er bidders. Maher's protest asserts that there is llo prohibi- - tion against accepting a bid from a Government employee per se, and the contract could have been executed with him after he re- signed. -1-

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