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B-209446.3 1 (1983-06-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlea0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER QENERAL DECISION . , -1 OF THE UNITED STATES WA SH IN GTO0N, 0. C. 2 0 548 FILE: B-209446.3 DATE: June 30, 1983 MATTER OF: Atlas Contractors, Inc.--Request for Reconsideration DIGEST: prior decision is affirmed where recon- sideration request merely reflects pro- tester's disagreement with prior decision and does not provide any evidence that prior decision was erroneous. Atlas Contractors, Inc. requests that we reconsider our decision in Hancon Associates--Recuest for Reconsid- eration, B-209446.2, Aprl 29, 1983, 83-1 CPD , in which we reversed our decision in Atlas Contractors, Inc., B-209446, March 24, 1983, 83-1 CPD 303. In Atlas, we held that the bid of Hancon Associates for the construction of a commissary at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas should be rejected as nonresponsive because the accompany- ing bid bond was materially defective in that it listed Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company in the place at the top of the bond reserved for the designation of sureties, but also listed the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company (USF&G) as surety at the bottom of the bond. We found that this discrepancy created an ambiguity as to the intended surety. In Hancon, we reversed that decision because upon further reflection we were persuaded that our decision gave too much weight to a technical deficiency in the bond and that the contingency about which we were concerned--the ability of the surety to avoid any obligation under the bond--was too remote to warrant rejection of the bond. In its request for reconsideration, Atlas initially reiterates its argument that Hancon's bid bond was ambi- guous. Essentially, Atlas disagrees with our decision in Hancon. Its argument was expressly rejected in that decision, however, and while Atlas disagrees with our disposition of that question, it has not provided any new arguments or facts. Mere disagreement with our prior

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