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Reconsideration of Claim for Bid Preparation and Related Costs

B-184662 Dec 27, 1978
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The Department of the Navy and the United Power & Control Systems, Inc. requested reconsideration of a prior decision. In addition United claimed bid preparation costs and costs incurred as a result of the protest. The prior decision's holdings that: (1) the protester's bid should not have been rejected as nonresponsive for failure to list three substations which performed successfully within certain parameters, (2) solicitation was unnecessarily ambiguous, and (3) termination for convenience could not be recommended since the contract was almost complete are affirmed. United's claim for bid preparation and related costs is denied, because, although protester/ claimant's bid was arbitrarily rejected as nonresponsive, Navy had reasonable basis to conclude that protester/claimant was nonresponsible; thus, protester/claimant was not deprived of award which it was otherwise entitled.

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