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Bean Dredging
July 6, 19B3
Corporation
DIGEST:
claim for bid preparation costs where
claimant alleges that agency was aware
prior to bid opening t hat contract for
dredging services could only be performed
by firm which had exclusive access to
'disposal areas and therefore agency
acted atbltrarily in failing to cancel
the solicitation prior to bid opening
Is denied where agency states that it con-
tinued to receive assurances from the
municipal authority responsible for pro-
viding disposal areas that sites would be
made available and agency determined to
cancel only after these promises were not
fulfilled.
'tean Dredging Corposration requests reimbursement of
its bid preparation costs under invitation for bids
(IFB) No. DACV01-82-B-0098 issued by the Mobile District,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Bean contends that the
Corps actcd arbitrarily by failling to cancel the sollci-
tation rlor to bid opening after I,.t allegedly acquired
Information which should have put it on notice of the
fact that the required dredging services could be per-
formed by only one firm. For the reasons t'dat follow,
we deny the claim,
The solicitation, issued on August 26, 1982, sought
bids for maintr.-naric.' dcedglng of poTrtions of the Pasc:g'.
Iarbor, JaCI:son County, lississippi, and the constructic
of dikots armA ,iI! : sal areas, Thc I I.' *OiCfufl : tlI-c..
disposa) ar,::s (A, ;., & C) whichI were to be supi ,:, . r.
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with the Corps. pje P'ort Authority ,3 al.o resl:.,u
for p)wy ng for the dike construction around tlhe di..:-psal
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