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B-214173 1 (1984-02-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlnn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OP THE UNITEO STATES, , WASHINGTON. O.C. 204U FILE: B-214173 DATE: February 10, 1984 MATTER OF: Jack Goncalves & Sons, Inc. DIGEST: Grant complaint challenging the capability of the awardee to provide certain materials and services at a particular price relates to a matter of responsibility which will not be reviewed absent a showing that the contracting agency acted fraud- ulently or in bad faith. Jack Goncalves & Sons, Inc. (Goncalves), complains against award of a contract to C & G Contractors, Inc. (C&G), under a solicitation issued by the City of Spring- field, Massachusetts, Department of Public Works, pursuant to a block grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for construction of a sanitary sewer system. We dismiss the complaint. Goncalves contends that C&G offered calcium chloride at a price of $0.01 per pound and trench excavation and sheeting at a price of $0.01 per cubic yard, and that C&G cannot in fact provide these materials and services at the above prices. Goncalves alleges that calcium chloride costs approximately $0.08 per pound and that the costs for pro- viding trench excavation and sheeting include provision of a backhoe or excavator by the hour plus union scale pay for the operator at $16.94 per hour which would make the cost of trench excavation and sheeting more than $0.01 per cubic yard. Goncalves further argues that the project manager was or should have been aware that C&G could not perform at the above prices and that the project manager's affirmative determination of C&G's responsibility was thus tantamount to fraud. Goncalves' allegations relate to C&G's responsibility. This Office will not review an affirmative determination of -l - - r , 1,

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