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A;~ '' THE COMPTROLLER GIENERAL
DECISIDN P OF THE uNITIS BTATEC
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FILE: B-190975 DATE; July 7, 1978
MATTER OF: Industrial Maintenance Services, Inc.--
Request for Reconsideration
DiGEST:
GAO affirms prior decision that failure of
bidder to timely acknowledge receipt of IB
amendment which merely clarified, but did
not lter work requirements set out in
solicitation may be waived as minor in-
formality since bidder, upon acceptance of
bid, would be legally bound to perform all
work specified by solicitation. Fact that
certain other bidders interpreted (incorrectly)
solicitation as requiring materially ]ess total
manhours thai, that suggested by amondnent is
insufficient to establish amendment's mate-
riality since solicitation reasonably should
have been interpreted as requiring more manhours
than computed by those bidders.
Industrial Maintenance Services, Inc. (Yndustrial)
requests reconsideration of our decision of May 2,
1978 (8-190975) in which we denied Industrial's pro-
test under invitation for bids ?08637-78-B-0004,
issued by Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, to provide
food attendant services at the base. Industrial was
objecting Lo 'he prospective award to Chavez Food
Service, Inc. (Chavez), contending that Chavez' bid
should have been rejected as nonresponsive for its
failure to acknowledge, prior to bid opening,
Amendment P007 which Industrial alleged 'to be material.
Chavez was the fifth low bidder and Industrial
the seventh low bidder. The bids of the first four
low bidders, as well as that of the sigth low bidder,
were disqualified for various reasons, leaving Chavez
and Industrial is the low and secoid low eligible
bidders, respectively.
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