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      DECISON   -E4%THlS CCMPTI:Q.LLWPI IDNEPEAL
ECISIONl..OF THE UNITUC *TATUB
                         WAB3HIN OrON, D.C. 209$48


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MATTER   OF: East


Bay Auto


* DATE: Doptembor 5, .1978
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Supply, Inc.


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         Where extended bid price  does
         not agree with  unit price for
         number of  items involved because
         of apparent clerical  decimal point
         error, unit price  is totally un-
         ieA'sonable wherea's extended price
         is not, and bidder  furnishes 'work-
         sheet verifying surm.ised inter.dgc
         bid, contracting officer  h-:md reason-
         able basis for correction  and did
         not ex'ceed authority by allowing
         correction:

       East Bay Auto Supply,  Inc. (East Bay), has
 vPotestdd againsCj(ward being made  to Hust Brothers,
 ITiC (Rust), cnder Castle Air  Force Base invitation
 for bidsNo.  F04604-78-B-0011 or' tte basis that the
 Hust bid is not the low bid.


     Hut  bid a
tended eotal pr
corded them).I


total  price of $133,917.82  (if the ex-
ices t6r each item are added as Hust  re-
East Bay bid a total price of $134,451.29.


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     During the evaluation of bids,  the contracting officer
notziced that the Hust unit price.bfi on item No. IMIc
($29.35) for 1,200 line items didnot  multiply  out to te
extended tGtal price'of $3,522 bid  by Hust on that item,
that an extension of the $29,35 unit price  rerulted ina
total price'of $35,220, and  that a unit price -of $2.935
wtlc  have\ had 1o have been used to reach the total bid
prV  on that item of $3,522.   East Bay.and the only other
bidderbr orithe procurement bid unit prices of $2 and $8,
respectively, on the item.  Believing  the Hust bid of $29.35
to be an obvious clerical mistake, thecontracting   officer,
pursuant to paragraphs 2-406.1  and 2-406.2 of the Armed


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