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[Protest of Air Force Rejection of Bid as Nonresponsive]

B-232424: Jan 9, 1989

A firm protested the Air Force's rejection of its low bid for corrosion control as nonresponsive, contending that the Air Force improperly rejected its bid for failure to insert an amount for the penal sum of the bid bond, since its surety's liability amount could substitute for the omitted penal sum. GAO held that the: (1) Air Force improperly rejected the protester's bid as nonresponsive, since...

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B-232424, Jan 9, 1989, 89-1 CPD 13

B-232424: Jan 9, 1989

PROCUREMENT - Sealed Bidding - Bid guarantees - Responsiveness - Sureties - Liability restrictions DIGEST: A protester's bid bond is enforceable against a single corporate surety that. Even though the penal sum is left blank. The bid was rejected as nonresponsive because no penal sum had been entered on the bid bond accompanying the bid. Four bids were received in response to the solicitation. PRS...

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