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B-191209 1 (1978-08-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgjh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L . THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNIT~iVf STATWB ...VASHINGTON, 0.0. 20542 FILE: B-191209 DATE: August 29, 1978 MATTER OF: Western States Construction Company, Inc. DIGEST: Bidder accepting award of contract, sub- jeot to reservation of rights to have mistahe in bid claim considered may have contract price adjusted upward to reflect omitted direct materials costS and round- ed off profit thereon. FAct that exact bid intended cannot be determined'with certainty is not bar to correction since uncertain amounts are insignificant in view of wide spread between contract price and next Xow bid and relativr standing of bidders would not change if correction to allow for questicnable elqments of bid (such as overhead) were permitted. Pursuant~to i,-mistake in bid alleged before award, the Weste h States -Conrtruotion Company (Western) requests an $198,936 increase in its contract (No. P25600-77-90322,'awarded by the Air Force) calling for the repaiv of 54 Titan 11 ICDM sites. The Air Force previously considered the mistake claim and denied the claim for correction. Western originally submitted a bid of $3,314,000, which was approximately one million dollars below the next low bid. In response to a cequest for verifica- tion of the bid price, Western adv-ised the con- tracting.,officer that a mistake had been made in the caluulation of mate'ials cost in that the cost of 1080 hose assemblies had been inadvertently omitted. According to Western, the hosing costs were listed on a separate 'flex hose summary sheet, and while its main spreadsheets contained a notatioa to cross-reference to the summary sheet to obtain the total hose cost, during the final calculations of the bid the notation was overlooked and the hosing costs were omitted from the final total figure for materials costs. After explaining the mistake, I

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