https://www.gao.gov/products/400866

B-278341: Dec 24, 1997

DIGEST A bid accompanied by a bid bond listing the principal as incorporated in a different state than the nominal bidder was properly rejected as nonresponsive because the obligation of the surety is unclear where the legal entity on the bid and the legal entity shown on the bid bond are not the same. The apparent second low bid was from the protester. The bid bond was imprinted with the principa...

https://www.gao.gov/products/159698

B-278341: Dec 24, 1997

A firm protested an Army contract award for sludge removal and dewatering, contending that the Army improperly rejected its bid as nonresponsive. GAO held that the Army properly determined that the protester's bid was nonresponsive, since the legal entity named in the bid was different from the entity named in the bid bond. Accordingly, the protest was denied...