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B-188946 1 (1978-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgcc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: h * s THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITEO UTATE3 WASHINGTON. D.C. 2054B FILE: 0-188946 DATE: May 30, 108 MATTER OF: Miller'B Sawmill, Inc.---Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Decision holding that contracting officer was on notice of possibility of mistake in bid is affirmed where bid was well outside the relatively narrow range of other bids received. .k~. Although sales of some surplus property may have such a wide range of bid variation that contract- ing officers are held not to have notice of the possibility of mistake because of such vide vari-- ation, there is not a sufficiently wide rahge of bids on timber sales so as to place them in the same class as sur'lus property sales. The Department of Agriculture,.Forest Service has requested recontideration of our decision Miller's SawmiLL, Inc., B-188946, December 23, 1977, 77-2 CFD 499. The Forest Service.qtater that our deciilon does not recognize the realities of timber bidding and relies on factors which would not place one knowl- edgeable in timber sale bidding on notice of mist&ke. In the decision we noted that prior and contem- poraneous sales of timber tended to dispel any in- ference to be drawn from the bidd.ng pattern-that Miller's had made a mistake in its bid.. The question to be recolved was whether, despite those prior and contemporandous sales, the bidding pattern established by the sale in question was sufficient to put the contracting officer on notice of the possibility of mistake. In resolving tha question, we took into account the generally rising market for timber, and the discrepancies betwedn the Government's appraised value for each of the types of timber being purchased and Miller's bid. We also noted the difference between Miller's bid and the next highest bid. But the case turned primarily on the fact that, while the other

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