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B-299237 1 (2007-03-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaudn0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Hawkeye Glove Manufacturing, Inc. File: B-299237 Date: March 6, 2007 Marc Lamer, Esq., Kostos and Lamer, PC, for the protester. Vera Meza, Esq., and Srikanti Dixit, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest by small business that agency improperly awarded small business set-aside contract to unreasonably high-priced offeror is denied where set-aside price was lower than government estimate and within range of small business prices received. DECISION Hawkeye Glove Manufacturing, Inc., a small business, protests the Department of the Army's award of a contract to Hatch Worldwide Imports under request for proposals (RFP) No. W911QY-06-R-0004, for combat gloves. Hawkeye alleges that the award was improper because the awardee's price was unreasonably high. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on February 22, 2006, contemplated the award of two contracts: 50 percent of the requirement would be set aside for award to a small business, while the other 50 percent would be awarded on an unrestricted basis. Each awardee would receive an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a guaranteed minimum of 60,000 pairs of gloves, and a maximum of 250,000 pairs. The awards were made on a best value basis using five evaluation criteria: technical, management, past performance, price, and subcontracting plan. The technical criteria combined were significantly more important than price. Under the small business set-aside portion of the requirement, the agency received eight proposals, including Hawkeye's and Hatch's. The agency subsequently decided not to include Hawkeye's proposal in the competitive range because the firm's product demonstration sample was found to contain numerous weaknesses and

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