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B-292760 1 (2003-11-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyoh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I llillLft G A 0Comptroller General .. . .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Contract Management, Inc. File: B-292760 Date: November 20, 2003 Timothy H. Power, Esq., for the protester. Jan E. Takamine, Esq., and Damon Martin, Esq., Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 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 Protest that elimination of protester's proposal from competitive range was improper because agency's price analysis was based on flawed government estimate is without merit, where elimination from competitive range was based on comparison of protester's price to other offerors' prices, not to estimate. DECISION Contract Management, Inc. (CMI) protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. N62742-03-R-2219, issued by the Department of the Navy for secure facilities custodial services in Oahu, Hawaii. CMI asserts that the agency failed to perform an adequate price analysis before eliminating its proposal from further consideration. We deny the protest. The RFP called for proposals to perform custodial work at several secure facilities for a base year, with four 1-year options, on a fixed-price basis. Offerors were advised that the agency would make award on a best value basis, with price and 1 In its initial protest, CMI asserted that there were improprieties in the agency's technical evaluation as well. In its comments responding to the agency report, CMI conceded that the agency's technical evaluation was unobjectionable. Protester's Comments, Oct. 15, 2003, at 6. We therefore do not consider this aspect of its protest further.

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