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10,A-53123, page 108: Contracts — Mistake in Bid- Withdrawal. 
Whether a bidder may be allowed to withdraw its bid on the 
ground of an alleged mistake is a matter for determination by 
the Comptroller General of the United States. The rule of pro- 
cedure as stated in 8 Comp. Gen. 397 still obtains. 
The reemployment of persons separated from the Government ser-— 
vice and receiving annuities under the act of May 22, 1920, 41 
Stat. 614, as amended by sections 2 of the acts of July 3, 1926, 
44 Stat. 905, and May 29, 1930, 46 Stat. 469, being: prchibuveds 
the status of retired civilian employees in receipt of retire= 
ment annuities is considered more that of pensioners rather than 
employees in the sense that term is used in paragraph 47 (c) 
of the Standardized Government Travel Regulations. Accordingly, 
the prohibition contained in said paragraph 47(c) against employ-— 
ees of the Government, in an authorized travel status, obtain-— 
ing meals and/or lodgings from other Government employees has 
no application to retired civilian emiployees. 
A-33152, page 133: Travel Expense Vouchers — False Statements— 
Violation of Oath of Office. 
Where an employee makes false statements as to certain items in 
his claim for reimbursement of expenses incurred, leaving doubt 
as to just what expenses were actually incurred, the entire claim 
will be disallowed. 
"The presentation by an employee of a falsified travel expense 
account constitutes a violation of his oath of office and thereby 
works a forfeiture of all accrued and unpaid travel expenses 
incurred by him in connection with the duties of the position he 
held under such oath. 
A-35552, page 148: Leases — Improvements. 
"An agreement by officials of the Government to Maintain leased 
premises in good repair and terantable condition during the 
continuance of the lease, has reference to minor repairs made nec 
essary by the use, so as to maintain them in the same condition 
they were in at the beginning of the tenancy, ordinary wear and 
tear excepted, and would not include the removal of an cli smoke- 
stack and breeching and the furnishing and erection of a new 
stack and new breeching, which would not bo a repair, but an im— 
provement of the property. 
A-32080, page 160: Advertising ~ Bids - Specifications. 
Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes requires that the needs of 
the Government be stated in Specifications so that there may be 
full and free competition thereon, and there is no authority for 
contracts entered into with a higher bidder meeting the specifi- 
cations when the actual needs of the Government have not been 
Stated in the specifications and the low bidder's offering would 
have met the needs had they been properly stated in the specifi- 
cations. In such cases, there should be readvertisement in 
accordance with the law. 
