B-228378: Dec 17, 1987

A firm protested an Army contract award for wood truss repair, contending that the Army: (1) improperly rejected its low bid because it failed to acknowledge a solicitation amendment; and (2) should have waived the omission as a minor informality. GAO held that the Army properly rejected the protester's bid, since it failed to acknowledge a material solicitation amendment. Accordingly, the protest...

B-228378: Dec 17, 1987

Since a solicitation's order of precedence clause will not necessarily protect the government where a conflict between the specifications and the drawings in a solicitation exist. While it is a general rule of contract interpretation that the specific provision prevails over the more general one. It is reasonable for a contracting officer to reject a bid for failure to acknowledge an amendment int...