B-232956: Nov 10, 1988

A firm protested the Army Corps of Engineers' rejection of its telecopied bid modification and subsequent contract award to another firm for water and sewer facilities construction, contending that the Army should have waived its failure to sign the modification as a minor informality. GAO held that the Army properly rejected the protester's bid as nonresponsive, since: (1) no other signed documen...

B-232956: Nov 10, 1988

Procurement - Sealed Bidding - Bids - Responsiveness - Signatures - Omission Bidder's failure to sign a telecopied bid modification may not be waived as a minor informality where the only evidence in the modification of the bidder's intent to be bound is the corporate letterhead and no other document signed by the bidder accompanied the modification. Specified that bids were to be received by 11 a...