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B-416436 1 (2018-07-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduwk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Seabee Construction, LLC File: B-416436 Date: July 16, 2018 Kevin Eike, Esq., Aldrich Eike, PC, for the protester. Jason Piskel, Esq., Piskel Yahne Kovarik, for Ascent Mechanical and Plumbing, Inc., the intervenor. Bruce Rohde, Esq., and Tristan Brown, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's refusal to allow protester to correct bid is denied where the existence of a mistake was clear on the face of the protester's bid but the intended bid could not be ascertained substantially from the invitation and the bid itself. DECISION Seabee Construction, LLC, of Gresham, Oregon, protests the award of a contract to Ascent Mechanical and Plumbing, Inc., of Spokane, Washington, under invitation for bids (IFB) No. W912DW-18-B-0008, issued by the Department of Army, Corps of Engineers (Corps), for landfill fencing. The protester argues that the agency should have allowed Seabee to correct a mistake in its bid after bid opening, asserting that its intended bid offered the lowest price. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The IFB1 was issued on April 18, 2018, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 1 The IFB was amended three times. All citations to the solicitation are to the final version as amended. The agency used a Bates numbering system in preparing the agency report. This decision uses the Bates numbers assigned by the agency for its citations.

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