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B-211879.2 1 (1983-08-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlgf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OP THE UNITED STATEN WASHINGTON. O.C. 2054U FILE: B-211879.2 DATE: August 8, 1983 MATTER OF: Zimmerman Plumbing and Heating Co., Inc.--Reconsideration DIGEST: 1. Apparent mistake in bid on alternate deductive items does not provide sufficient basis to reject the bid for the basic item, which offers to perform the entire project called for under a solicitation providing for award of the basic item if funds are available and it is determined that the funds are available. 2. Where it is clear from a protester's initial submission that the protest involves matters which GAO does not consider, GAO will dismiss protest without requesting an agency report or holding a conference which would serve no useful purpose. Zimmerman Plumbing and Heating Co., Inc. (Zimmerman), requests reconsideration of our decision in Zimmerman Plumbing and Heating Company, Inc., B-211879, June 24, 1983, 83-2 CPD 16, in which we dismissed Zimmerman's protest under a solicitation issued by the Veterans Administration (VA) for the Battle Creek Michigan Medical Center remodeling project No. 515-811360. In that decision, we found that Zimmerman's protest was not for consideration on the merits because its allegation that the low bidder had submitted a below-cost bid under certain items did not constitute a legal basis for precluding award, and Zimmerman's allegation that the bid was mistaken was unsubstantiated, and, in any event, that if the bid appeared so unreasonably low as to suggest error, the contracting officer would be obligated to seek appropriate verification prior to making award. In its request for reconsideration, Zimmerman asserts that there is no evidence that the low bidder did not make a mistake in its bid and further contends that if no mistake is claimed, the VA should make an award to the low bidder for one of the alternate deductive items, on which its bid was extremely low, and resolicit for the work deducted under that item. We find the request for reconsideration without merit.

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