B-277705: Sep 24, 1997

Cal-Tex Lumber Company, Inc. protests the rejection of its high bid submitted in response to an advertisement for the "Compartment 32 Backyard Timber Sale" issued by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture for the sale of timber located in the Sabine National Forest in Texas. Cal-Tex maintains that the agency erred in rejecting its bid as nonresponsive because it did not include an executed...

B-277705: Sep 24, 1997

DIGEST Protest that bid was improperly rejected as nonresponsive because bidder failed to include with its bid a certificate of small business status which contained certain performance requirements is sustained where the bid form executed by the protester obligated it to meet the identical performance requirements. The Addendum To Bid For Advertised Timber used for this sale provided as follows:...