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B-271740 1 (1996-07-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaefr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Fire Security Systems, Inc. File: B-271740 Date: July 22, 1996 John M. Frazier, Esq., Peatross, Greer & Frazier, and W. R. Hayes, for the protester. Christopher M. Bellomy, Esq., George N. Brezna, Esq., and Marilyn Walter Johnson, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly accepted a bid which, while it included a nonresponsive alternate option, also constituted an offer that did not take exception to any solicitation requirement and was not susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation. DECISION Fire Security Systems, Inc. protests the proposed award of a contract to Lima Fire Equipment Company under invitation for bids (IFB) No. N62467-95-B-1106, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for an automatic fire sprinkler protection system for the Naval Hospital NTTC Corry Station, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Fire Security asserts that Lima's bid should be rejected because it was ambiguous. We deny the protest. The Navy issued the solicitation on January 31, 1996. The bid form required the entry of prices for two items, the base bid and one option, with award to be made to the bidder offering the lowest total price. The IFB provided that for sprinkler piping the industry standards set forth in National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 13 and NFPA 14 would apply except as modified herein. Under the conditions outlined in the solicitation, NFPA 13 specifies that the pressure limitations and the minimum wall thicknesses for 5-inch, 6-inch and 8 to 10-inch steel pipe shall be in accordance with Schedule 10 pipe. However, the same section of the IFB goes on to state that Steel piping shall be Schedule 40 for sizes less than 8 inches, and Schedule 30 or 40 for sizes 8 inches and larger. Thus, while the reference of NFPA allows for Schedule 10 steel pipe for certain of the specified sizes, the IFB modifies the requirement to Schedule 30 or Schedule 40 steel pipe for those sizes. 654722

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