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108969 1 (1979-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhbq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: p THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION. OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, O.C. 20548 L''A, ID94* 5 FILE: B-194150 DATE: March 23, 1979 MATTER OF: State Mutual Book & Periodical Service Ltd. DIGEST: 1. Where invitation for bids (IFB) required bidders to submit a single discount as _percentage, bidder's submission of 0-25% Ldiscount renders Did nonresponsive for fail- ure to submit a d`fintterfixed price * 2. Where a bid is ambiguous and subject to two reasonable interpretations, under one of which bid would be responsive and under other nonresponsive, rejection of bid is required. State Mutual Book and Periodical Service Ltd. (State , Mutual) protests award of a contract under invitation \ for bids (IFB) No. N00140-79-B-6170, issued by the Navy OJ Regional Procurement Office, Philadelphia. The IFB was for an indefinite quantity type contract for the purchase of domestic library books as required by the Naval War PLGoljZ) College, Newport, Rhode Island to be priced on the basis of Publisher's List Price less discount. The IFB contained no specific list of titles to be ordered (5 sample titles were specified as an in- dication of the types of books which would be ordered) and consequently there were no estimated quantities specified. Thus, the sole item to be bid was the discount. In addition, only a single blank space was included in the invitation for the insertion of the discount. Given these circumstances, we believe it reasonable to conclude that only one discount figure was permissible. The contracting officer rejected State Mutual's bid as being nonresponsive because State Mutual offered a discount of 0-25%. For the reasons stated below, we find that the rejection of State Mutual's bid was proper. The question of the responsiveness of a bid concerns whether a bidder has unequivocally offered to provide

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