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Show Army bid specs Jj -- Solar-- X Quality Steaks Prepared and served in an antique western atmosphere Company Banquets 2 miles above Hogle Zoo 2110 Emigration Canyon 582-89- 91 X COMPLETE EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT SERVICES . . . . Helping you to determine your needs and achieving your employment goals. Specializing in affirmation action program. All applicants are screened and provided with a resume for your convenience. All information is strictly confidential. If you are currently looking for employees, please give us a call and we'll do our best to bring you the best. mtm Professional Womens Employment Placement Building No. 2, Suite 250, Arrow Press Square Telephone (801) 532-669- 9 singed by Whether a clerical error or a calculated redundancy, a recent bid modification at the U.S. Armys procurement division at Fort Douglas left Solar-Insulation Co. with a bad taste of bureaucracy one which owner Brent Holladay will not soon forget. Solar-approached the post in January in hopes of convincing contracting officer E.L. Fleming that cellulose should be included in bids for some family housing retrofitting at Fort Douglas. The initial bid specifications included rockwool only mineral fiber and Holladay and fiberglas felt qualified cellulose installers should have a chance to bid for the contract. Holladay was successful in having the bid specs modified, and eventually won the $21,000 contract. He ordered $14,000 in cellulose and scheduled his crew for an 18 day stretch at Fort Douglas. But competitor U.S. Rockwool realized the modified bid spec was rather confusing and filed a protest with the U.S. Army over the award while ink on the to Solar-contracts was still wet, Fleming said. Rockwool called for X Seating 200 X TIME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COMPANYS SUCCESS OR FAILURE Catch-2- 2 another bid on the project. since it wasnt us, I didnt see any need to pursue the issue." You see, the Army engineers, when told to write a Eakins was unaware of the intent to include cellulose when the modification was sent, he said. Solar-manager Mark Miller said he is still trying to peddle the mountains of Fed Spec bought for the Fort Douglas project. But excess inventory is not the only problem at Solar-This has thrown me 45 days behind meeting financial obligations to my suppliers and has created idle time for my equipment and men, all because I was precluded from performing on the contract, Holladay complained. "I still stand ready to honor my end of the contract, but I have been damaged $300 per day for 45 days. The whole mess is under investigation by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, but neither Holladay nor Miller has been called to testify at its hearings. Should the board uphold Fort Douglas decision to again let bids, on the project, Holladay says he will take the case to court. Fort Douglas officials, meanwhile, contend Holla-day- s bid simply did not meet the 1030A specifications, and therefore Solar-X- , not the Ar- modification allowing other types of insulation, advised contractors to "delete all references to mineral wool in specifications and add the following: All types of blown in insulation other than mineral wool will be accepted if it meets Fed Spec But Fed Spec X HH-I-515- HH-I-1030- X. HH-I-1030- A sets guidelines for acceptable mineral wool insula- tions, so the engineers were in fact saying all types of blown in insulation other than mineral wool will be accepted if it meets mineral wool specifica- tions." Ross Eakins of U.S. Rockwool said although the modified specs "were confusing and contradictory," his company followed the specs and bid $8,000 higher than . When Eakins learned Solar-planned to install cellulose, he wrote a letter of complaint to Fort Douglas saying cellulose did not meet the specifications. 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