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B-298831 1 (2006-12-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptassd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc. File: B-298831 Date: December 14, 2006 Harvey G. Sherzer, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for the protester. Sheryl A. Butler, Esq., Drug Enforcement Administration, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee in fixed-price sealed bid acquisition submitted unrealistically low prices is dismissed, since question of whether a firm's pricing is too low does not involve the responsiveness of the firm's bid, but rather the firm's responsibility; agency, in making award, made an affirmative determination of responsibility, which is not for consideration under our Bid Protest Regulations except in circumstances not alleged by protester. 2. Protest that firm's bid was nonresponsive because it included incorrectly calculated overtime rates is denied where record shows that miscalculation amounted to waivable minor informality. DECISION AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc. (ALC) protests the award of a contract to Conduit Language Specialists under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DEA-06-B-0001, issued by the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), to acquire language-related services, including monitoring, interpretation, translation and transcription services for DEA's San Francisco field office. ALC maintains the agency should have rejected Conduit's bid because it included unrealistically low prices and overtime rates calculated in a manner that was inconsistent with the terms of the IFB. We deny the protest. The IFB, issued as a two-step sealed bid acquisition, contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for a base year, with four 1-year

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