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B-190893 1 (1978-05-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgbj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I .AI h FIL:: B-190893 DATE: NO 12, 197S MATTER OF: Utility Petroleum and Refining, Inc. DIGEST: Where contracting officer stated that there was noti!e-of prob- ability of mistake in bid becaus' price for number 5 fuel oil item was out of line compared to other bids and available information, item may be rescinded since no valid and binding contract is consummated where contracting officer kne's or should have known ot ertor and neglected to verify bid. On the baE ; of a mistake in bid alleged altec award, Utility -oleum and Refining, Inc. (Utility), requests modifi.c .a.on of the contLact awarded tinder invitation for b..ds (IFE) No. DSA600-76-B-1014, issued on August 12, 1976, by Defense Fuel Supply Canter, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). More specifically, Utility requests rescission of itori No 295-53, which required approximately 109,000 barrels of number 5 (light) fuel oil, in contract No. DSA600-77-D-0032. The invitation solicited bids for the supplying of various distillate and residual bunker fuels, pursuant to the East/West Coast Marine Bunker Program, for the period of January 1, 1977, through December 31, 1977. Utility bid on 45 of the items in the IFB and its bid discloses that for each of the items it listed either a number 2 or a number 6 fuel oil and priced accordingly, even though item 295-53 called for a number 5 fuel oil. Utility contends that while determining which items in section E, the list of the distillate and residual bunker fuels, to bid on, ±t read item 295-53, a number 5 (light) fuel, as a number 6 fuel and bid the same price ($9.90 per barrel) as it did on item 240-55, a number 6 fuel, listed on the preceding page. - 1 - THEI COMPTRCLL.ER GRIEERA'. C'ECISIONd Cr- TIE UNITED S4TATUE UN2AL I NSTO N. D.-C. 20t54U1 LhPVl L I * I * ii -F I

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