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B-290751.8 1 (2002-12-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacycz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I 7=Accountability * Integrity * Reliability Decision Matter of: The Right One Company File: B-290751.8 Date: December 9, 2002 Doris Hill for the protester. Adele Ross Vine, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency improperly excluded protester's proposal from consideration for award is denied where the decision to eliminate the protester's proposal was reasonably based on a finding that protester's proposed rates for certain line items were unreasonably high. DECISION The Right One Company (TRO) protests the elimination of its proposal from consideration for award under request for proposals (RFP) No. 6TA-02-MTV-0057, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for government-wide acquisition contracts for information technology services. TRO argues that the agency unreasonably excluded its proposal based on the agency's conclusion that TRO either qualified the solicitation requirements or otherwise proposed unreasonably high rates for many line items. We deny the protest. The RFP was restricted to firms certified under the Small Business Administration's Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program and provided for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for a base period of 2 years, with three 1-year options. Work under the contracts was to be performed pursuant to specific task orders covering one or more of seven functional areas (FA) corresponding to various required services. RFP at M-1. Offerors could elect to 'For each FA, the solicitation anticipated not fewer than three and no more than ten awards to the responsible offerors whose proposals represent the best values to the (continued...)

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