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SG A O Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: Croman Corporation
File: B-409496
Date: April 29, 2014
Alan I. Saltman, Esq., and Stephen J. Kelleher, Esq., Smith Currie & Hancock LLP,
for the protester.
Stephanie Magnell, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
Kathleen A. Gilhooly, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
An agency properly rejected as nonresponsive the protester's low bid that failed to
provide required line item prices for an option year; correction of the bid is not
permitted where the bid, as submitted, did not establish a consistent pattern of
pricing that establishes the intended price for the omitted items.
DECISION
Croman Corporation, of White City, Oregon, protests the rejection of its bid as
nonresponsive under invitation for bids (IFB) No. W91 1S8-13-B-0001, issued by the
Department of the Army for aerial fire suppression. Croman contends that its bid is
responsive, despite failing to include all required pricing information, because the
agency could have ascertained its intended prices from the bid's pattern of pricing.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The IFB, issued as a small business set-aside, contemplated the award of a fixed-
price contract for aerial fire suppression at Joint Base Lewis-McChord-Yakima
Training Center in Washington for a base year and 4 option years. Bidders were
required to price four contract line items (CLIN) in each of the contract years. The
IFB informed bidders that [t]he price for the base year will be added to the total](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadqgp0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)