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B-272612 1 (1996-10-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaejn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Knightsbridge Construction Corp. File: B-272612 Date: October 23, 1996 Joel S. Rubinstein, Esq., Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, for the protester. Col. Nicholas P. Retson, Department of the Army, for the agency. Win. David Hasfurther, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where only one amendment was issued to a solicitation, a bidder's use of an X instead of the number and issuance date of that amendment in completing the block provided for the acknowledgment of amendments on Standard Form 1442 does not render the bid nonresponsive under circumstances where the X represents the bidder's clear intent to be bound to the amendment. DECISION Knightsbridge Construction Corp., the second low bidder, protests the proposed award to Castle Electromechanical Inc. under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DAHA30- 96-B-0005, issued by the United States Property and Fiscal Office-New York, to obtain fire suppression and detection systems for a New York Air National Guard unit. Knightsbridge contends that Castle's bid should have been rejected because the bidder failed to acknowledge the one amendment to the IFB. We deny the protest. Bidders were required by the IFB to acknowledge all IFB amendments in block 19 of Standard Form 1442, Solicitation, Offer and Award. In completing block 19, a bidder was to insert in the top row of boxes in the block the number of each amendment and in the lower row of boxes the issuance date of each amendment. The name of the person authorized to sign the bid, that person's signature, and the date the bid was submitted were to be inserted in blocks 20(A), (B), and (C), respectively. These blocks were located directly below block 19. According to the Army, due to a paper jam when printing this form, Castle received a page containing only the right half of the form. As submitted, the page contained only the right half of block 19 and the entire blocks 20(B) and (C). Castle, in completing this portion of the page, did not list the number and issuance date of amendment No. 1; rather, it placed an X in the first box above the signature block (block 4511023

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