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B-286881 1 (2001-02-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamnr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: New Shawmut Timber Company File: B-286881 Date: February 26, 2001 Alan I. Saltman, Esq., Saltman & Stevens, for the protester. Gwen M. Ralph, Esq., for Highland Forest Resources, Inc., an intervenor. Lori Polin Jones, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Forest Service properly rejected bid for timber sale as nonresponsive where protester failed to include a price for one of the several line items being sold; in the absence of a price for the item, the agency reasonably concluded that there was doubt regarding whether the protester had offered to perform that aspect of the requirement. DECISION New Shawmut Timber Company protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive for the FR165 Re-Entry timber sale in the Allegheny National Forest, conducted by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. New Shawmut contends that its omission of a price for one of the line items did not provide a proper basis for rejecting its bid. We deny the protest. The prospectus for the sale called for the submission of sealed bids to purchase seven species of timber and included an estimated quantity and minimum acceptable price for each species. As pertinent here, one of the seven species was listed as hardwood--other, with a minimum acceptable bid price of $1.90 per hundred cubic feet. The agency received five bids; New Shawmut's was the apparent high bid but, after reviewing it, the agency determined that the bid was nonresponsive, and rejected it, because it did not include a price for the hardwood--other line item.

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