United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-24 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1998-05-11 monographic deposited born digital 7 p. GA 1.13:B-279132 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-279132 P0b002ee18fd4c982 f:279132 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-279132 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-279132 B-279132 Comptroller General Decision 1. Contracting agency properly awarded a fixed-price construction contract to the awardee on the basis of its lowest priced bid, even though the bid contained an alleged price discrepancy for an additive item, where the contract was awarded for the basic construction work only and does not include the additive item.<p/>2. Protest that the agency improperly accepted the awardee's bid despite the fact that the bid contained alleged minor irregularities regarding the title of the person who signed the bid and the date that the bid was signed is denied, where the title and date were clearly set forth in several other parts of the bid and the alleged irregularities do not affect price, quantity, quality, or delivery of the required construction services. <p/>3. Protest that the awardee's bid was nonresponsive to the invitation for bids' (IFB) requirement that toilets be supplied from two manufacturers named in the specifications is denied, where the contracting agency reasonably interpreted the IFB as allowing installation of toilets manufactured by other than the named firms and the awardee's bid took no exception to the IFB's requirements.<p/>4. Bid is not materially unbalanced where there is no evidence that the awardee's bid will not result in the lowest cost to the government. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-279132/html/GAOREPORTS-B-279132.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-279132/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-279132.pdf GAO/B-279132 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-279132 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-279132; D & L Construction Co., Inc., B-279132, May 11, 1998;