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B-277241.15 1 (1998-03-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahmb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Aalco Forwarding, Inc., et al. File: B-277241.15 Date: March 11, 1998 Alan F. Wohlstetter, Esq., and Stanley I. Goldman, Esq., Denning & Wohlstetter; James M. McHale, Esq., Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson; Thomas M. Auchincloss, Jr., Esq., Leo C. Franey, Esq., and Brian L. Troiano, Esq., Rea, Cross & Auchincloss, for the protesters. Thomas J. Duffy, Esq., Maj. Jonathan C. Guden, and Ramon Morales, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Adam Vodraska, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Under a solicitation contemplating the award of multiple indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts to implement a pilot program for moving and storage services, protests that the contract minimum of $25,000 per contractor is only nominal consideration insufficient to bind the parties are denied, where the nature of the acquisition dictates the possibility that the government may order only this quantity and the establishment of long-term commitments with relatively few prime contractors, who will potentially be provided greater shipping volumes than under the current program, shows an intent to form binding contracts. 2. Under a solicitation contemplating the award of multiple indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts to implement a pilot program for moving and storage services, protests that the maximum quantities for the various traffic channels are unrealistic are denied, where it cannot be determined that the maximums were not established in good faith or based on the best information available, or that they do not accurately represent the agency's anticipated needs, given the contracting agency's reasonable explanation that the varying nature and unpredictability of its requirements necessitate the stated maximums. 3. On a solicitation for an indefinite quantity of moving and storage services, a price evaluation scheme that evaluates offerors' prices by applying them in a notional shipment, including all possible accessorial services that may be ordered under the contract, is not objectionable, even though the notional shipment is not representative of a typical shipment that may be ordered under the contract, where the notional shipment provides a common basis for price evaluation under the solicitation, the agency requires a evaluation model that encompasses all accessorial

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