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B-295562 1 (2005-02-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaquq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Singleton Enterprises File: B-295562 Date: February 25, 2005 Wayne Singleton for the protester. Keith A. Moore-Erickson, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, 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 Awardee's bid for dredging a boat basin and channel was responsive, even though it failed to acknowledge an amendment, which provided the precise location of disposal area for the dredging material, an area that was identified in the initial invitation for bids, because the amendment did not impose any additional legal obligations and therefore was not material. DECISION Singleton Enterprises protests the award of a contract to W.C. Fore Trucking, Inc. under invitation for bids (IFB) No. HSCG82-05-B-3WCA20, issued by the United States Coast Guard, for dredging the small boat basin and channel at the Coast Guard Station, Gulfport, Mississippi. Singleton contends that Fore Trucking's bid should have been rejected as nonresponsive for failing to acknowledge a material amendment. We deny the protest. The IFB, posted on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website on November 10, 2004, as a small business set-aside, sought proposals for dredging an estimated base quantity of 20,814 cubic yards of material from the small boat basin and channel. The IFB required the dredge material to be transported and deposited at the Harrison County Development Commission Dredge Material Disposal Area C-i in accordance with the Conditions For Use of the disposal area, as set forth in an appendix to the IFB. IFB § 01010, 1.2.1, § 02325, 3.3, append.

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