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G A 0Comptroller General
.. . .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548
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Decision
Matter of: Contractors Northwest, Inc.
File: B-293050
Date: December 19, 2003
John C. Black, Esq., Dunn & Black, for the protester.
Richard L. Lambe, Esq., Lambe Law Firm, for Ohno Construction Co., an intervenor.
Ronald S. Marsh, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency.
Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency properly awarded contract based on evaluation of base and optional items,
where invitation for bids (IFB) informed bidders that optional items would be
evaluated and agency had a reasonable expectation that funding would be received
in time to exercise the options in accordance with the IFB provisions.
DECISION
Contractors Northwest, Inc. (CNI) protests the award of a contract to Ohno
Construction Co. by the Army Corps of Engineers under invitation for bids (IFB)
No. DACW67-03-B-0011 for the construction and modernization of the Riley Creek
Campground in Idaho.
We deny the protest.
The IFB, issued on June 6, 2003, anticipated award of a fixed-price contract for labor,
materials, and equipment to renovate campsites and related facilities. Work was
apportioned among contract line item numbers (CLIN) for base items (CLINs 001
through 005) and optional items (CLINs 006 through 0016). Bidders were
instructed to quote on all items in this [IFB] and were advised that the evaluation
of bids would be based upon the total price quoted for all items. The IFB also
stated that award would be made on an all or none basis. IFB § 00100 at 16.
However, the IFB also provided that optional items could be exercised at any time,
or not at all, but no later than 180 calendar days after receipt by the Contractor of
notice to proceed. IFB, Special Clause 1.1(a). The IFB also contained two clauses
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