Christine S. Trafford, Esq., and Joseph J. Summerill, Esq., Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. No. 50703-4053, issued for demolition and the construction of a new accessible stair and elevator corridor at the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma.
Cooper contends that the agency's decision was unreasonable.
We sustain the protest. Bidders were required to submit a single lump-sum bid to perform the solicited work. The details of that work were set forth in narrative specifications and a set of drawings. In preparing to award the contract to Cooper, the contracting officer asked the firm to cure several minor omissions in its bid by June 6. Pursuant to the contracting officer's instruction, later that same day Cooper submitted a written claim of mistake in bid accompanied by the firm's handwritten worksheets and a sworn affidavit from the firm's president.