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PILE: B-190975
DATE: May 2, 1978
MATTER OF Industrial Maintenance Snrvices, Inc.
DIGEST:
Failure of bidder to timely acknowledge
receipt of IFD amendment which merely
clarified, but did not alter work require-
ments set out in solicitation, may be
waived as minor informality, since bidder,
upon acceptance of bid, would be legally
bound to perform all work specified by
solicitation notwithstanding failure to
acknowledge amendment.
Industrial Maintenance Services, Inc.
(Industrial) protests'the prospective awcrd of
a contract to Chavuz Pood Service, Inc. (Chavez)
under invitation for bids (IFB) F08637-78-B-0004,
issued by Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida to pro-
vide food attendant services at the base.
Chavez was the fifth low bidder and Industrial
the seventh low bidder. The bids of the first
through fourth low bidders, as we]1 as that of the
sixth low bidder, were disqualifi.d for various
reasons, leaving Chavez and Industrial as the low
and second low eligible bidders, respectively.
Industrial contends that Chavez' bid must
be rejected as nonresponsive for its failure to
acknowledge, prior to bid opening, the sixth and
seventh amendments to the IFB (P006 and P007).
(The Chavez bid had been submitted prior to issuance
of the amendments; Chavez, upon receipt of the amend-
ments, sent an acknowledgment of them by mail, which
was received by the procuring activity the day after
bid opening.)
Amendment P006 merely stated that bid opening
-date was extended indefinitely.
Amendment P007, the major source of contention,
.stated:
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DECISION . THE UNITED STATES
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