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B-284147 1 (2000-02-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakzs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Fire Security Systems, Inc. File: B-284147 Date: February 23, 2000 Terrence M. O'Connor, Esq., for the protester. Raymond M. Saunders, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where an invitation for bids (IFB) soliciting bids for multiple line items contains a clause that permits the government to accept any item or combination of items in the bid, the agency has the discretion to make a partial award unless the IFB elsewhere contains express language precluding such an award. DECISION Fire Security Systems, Inc. protests receiving a partial award under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DAKF23-99-B-0318, issued by the Department of the Army, for upgrading a fire sprinkler system at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Fire Security contends that the terms of the IFB required the Army either to award all line items of the IFB to a single bidder or to cancel the IFB. We deny the protest. The IFB schedule identified four separate line items of work. Item No. 0001 was to upgrade sprinkler systems at building 5207; item No. 0002 was to upgrade sprinkler systems at building 5210; item No. 0003 was to upgrade sprinkler systems at buildings 751 through 756; and item No. 0004 was to install/repair fire appurtenances at buildings 5207 and 5210. Bidders were required to insert separate lump-sum

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