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[Protest Against Marine Corps Contract Award for Containers]

B-232237: Nov 9, 1988

A firm protested a Marine Corps contract award for containers, contending that the Corps: (1) should have rejected the awardee's bid as nonresponsive, since it contained ambiguous and erroneous prices; and (2) prejudiced it by allowing the awardee to submit two different prices for the same line item. GAO held that the: (1) protester's interpretation of an ambiguous specification was reasonable; (...

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B-232237, Nov 9, 1989

B-232237: Nov 9, 1989

Solicitation provision calling for unit prices for estimated quantities to correspond to unit prices for stepladder quantities is ambiguous where it can reasonably be interpreted as referring either to the aggregate estimated quantities or the individual quantities designated by destination within each line item. Award under invitation for bids with ambiguous pricing provision to bidder which base...

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