Contract Line Item Repeated Statement of Work

Where a bid schedule consisted of two contract line items and the second line item restated work included in the first line item, the second line item should have been priced to include only the work it added. The protester’s reading of the second contract line item, while literally correct, created a patent ambiguity that should have been clarified prior to bid submittal.

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