[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR14.403]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 14_SEALED BIDDING--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart 14.4_Opening of Bids and Award of Contract
 
Sec.  14.403  Recording of bids.

    (a) Standard Form 1409, Abstract of Offers, or Optional Form 1419, 
Abstract of Offers--Construction (or automated equivalent), shall be 
completed and certified as to its accuracy by the bid opening officer as 
soon after bid opening as practicable. Where bid items are too numerous 
to warrant complete recording of all bids, abstract entries for 
individual bids may be limited to item numbers and bid prices. In 
preparing these forms, the extra columns and SF 1410, Abstract of 
Offers--Continuation, and OF 1419A, Abstract of Offers--Construction, 
Continuation Sheet, may be used to label and record such information as 
the contracting activity deems necessary.
    (b) Abstracts of offers for unclassified acquisitions shall be 
available for public inspection. Such abstracts shall not contain 
information regarding failure to meet minimum standards of 
responsibility, apparent collusion of bidders, or other notations 
properly exempt from disclosure to the public in accordance with agency 
regulations implementing subpart 24.2.
    (c) The forms identified in paragraph (a) above need not be used by 
the Defense Fuel Supply Center for acquisitions of coal or petroleum 
products or by the Defense Personnel Support Center for perishable 
subsistence items.
    (d) If an invitation for bids is cancelled before the time set for 
bid opening, this fact shall be recorded together with a statement of 
the number of bids invited and the number of bids received.

[48 FR 42171, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 54 FR 29280, July 11, 1989]