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 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1998-07-02 monographic deposited born digital 4 p. GA 1.13:B-279837 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-279837 P0b002ee18fd49645 f:279837 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-279837 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-279837 B-279837 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protester's bid was properly rejected as nonresponsive where the rejected bid substituted photocopies of bid schedule pages from the base performance period for pages covering the option periods. The substituted pages did not contain the contract line item numbers covering the option year effort, creating ambiguity about whether the bidder was committed to providing the option year effort, and, if so, at what price. In addition, the substituted pages, in one case, specified a performance period shorter than the option year which the bidder intended the substitute page to cover. <p/>2. Contracting officer's decision not to permit bid correction is reasonable where the bid is nonresponsive on its face, since responsiveness cannot be established after bid opening. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-279837/html/GAOREPORTS-B-279837.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-279837/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-279837.pdf GAO/B-279837 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-279837 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-279837; Temp Air Company, Inc., B-279837, July 2, 1998;