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B-203159,B-204032 1 (1981-08-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkdf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: <:tD4i UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE UWASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 OFFICE O GENERAL COUNSEL B-203159 August 5, 1981 B-204032 The Honorable John H. Chafee United States Senate Dear Senator Chafee: By letter dated June 29, 1981, you requested that we respond to questions raised by Mr. Frederick Evans, Jr. concerning a protest filed by RHK Services under Invitation for Bids No. N62472-80-B-0433, issued by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command for fire protection services at the Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, Rhode Island. This procurement was conducted pursuant to a Com- mercial Industrial Type Activities program under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76. Under this pro- gram the agency estimates the cost of performing the work in house-and the estimate is used in competition with bids from commercial firms. Award is made to a commercial bid- der only if the cost of performing the services by contract is less than performance in house. Mr. Evans is an employee of the Navy currently performing these fire protection serv- ices. RHK, a commercial firm submitting the low bid at the January 8 bid opening, filed a protest with our Office on February 13 alleging that (1) the IFB omitted vital infor- mation and instructions; (2) Government representatives were improperly interpreting a Navy instruction, and (3) the Government was deceptively presenting cost comparisons in order to make the protester's bid seem unreasonably low. In its report to our Office in response to the protest, the Navy indicated that it believed that RHK's bid, which was much lower than the other commercial bids and the Government in-house estimate, may have been the result of an error. In the course of attempting to verify RHK's bid, the Navy discovered that RHK had estimated the requirements D Vdaf ,. ,

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