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B-277068 1 (1997-08-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagaw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: Ameriko, Inc. File: B-277068 Date: August 29, 1997 B. Michael Schestopol, Esq., and James F. Nagle, Esq., Oles Morrison & Rinker, for the protester. Timothy H. Power, Esq., for State Management Services, Inc., an intervenor. Darryl Bardusch, Esq., Capt. Philip T. McCaffrey, and Col. Nicholas P. Retson, Department of the Army, for the agency. Tania L. Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting agency improperly failed to conduct price realism evaluation of awardee's proposal is denied where the record shows that the agency reviewed each contract line item number (CLIN) of the awardee's price proposal to assess its reasonableness and realism in comparison with historical pricing and the offeror's own cost data, and subjected subsequent revisions to similar review. 2. Protest that contracting agency improperly failed to downgrade offeror's technical proposal for its inadequate understanding of the solicitation's requirements based upon its allegedly unrealistic pricing is denied where the allegation of unrealistic pricing is not generally supported by the record, and where the awardee's proposal as a whole supports the agency's evaluation. DECISION Ameriko, Inc. protests the award of a contract to State Management Services, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAHC77-96-R-0034, issued by the Department of the Army to obtain preventive maintenance services at military housing on various military installations on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Ameriko contends that the Army improperly evaluated State's proposal. We deny the protest. The successful offeror was to be awarded a fixed-price requirements contract to perform these services over one 6-month base period, with up to two 6-month

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