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B-176399 1 (1973-01-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadubo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - 255 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 2054w B-176399 Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Bhielo and Cohen Attorneys at Law Twenty-second Floor PhilaUlphia Savlng Fund Building Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 Attention: Harold Greenberg, Esquire Gentlemen: Reference is made to your letter of September 5, 1972, end prior correspondence, protesting the rejection of the low bid of Service Rental for Industry (servrie) for the rental of cleaning clothe and mops under General Services AdmnAistration (GSA) invitation for bids (iM) No. FSs-l0-721.5-2-73 for the period July X 1972, to June 30, 1973. The bid was rejected because it faled to acknowledgt an amend- went to the IFB which included the Deprtmnt of Labor wage detend- nations for ludry end dry cleaning services under the Service Contract Act not theretofore included. You have indicated that Service di zot Acknowledge the amend- ment with the bid because. it did not receive the aendwent prior to bid opening. However, our Office has held that the filure to furnish an amendment does not warrant the acceptance of the bid or a modifi- cation th reof after the time fixed for opening of bids. 40 Ccmp. Further, you have contended that Service is largely an autmated operation and only one cate ry in the wage determination would apply to it; that it is a union eottractoV paying in excess of the rate preseribed in the amendment.; and that at the time it bid it was per- forming the prior annual contract which cntained prescribed wage rates. In your estimation, considering the amount of time that would be utilized by the eqployee egaged in the job category involved during the one-year period of the contract, total wages of no nore than $56 on a $W4o,000 contract are at issue. However, in a meeting with repre- sentatives of our Office, you did acknowledge that other Job ategories not specifically named in the wage determination are involved in the work. In that connection, we note that the Service Contract Act pro- vision in the PFB provides that any class of service employee which pvs • . ..:.. / - -. i . .. . . . . . . ..:. . ..::: :::!...:.!':., - . :i:! . .= -::i!.:: i . '.:! : ..: .

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