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B-294335 1 (2004-09-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyup0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General .. ..Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Government Contracts Consultants File: B-294335 Date: September 22, 2004 James D. Bailey for the protester. Maj. Jennifer S. Zucker, Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that awardee's price is too low to have been based on an adequate staffing level does not raise serious concerns that contracting officer ignored relevant information in finding awardee responsible so as to trigger GAO review of contracting officer's affirmative responsibility determination. DECISION Government Contracts Consultants (GCC) protests the Department of the Army's selection of Ultima Services Corporation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W911RX-04-T-0100, for postal services at Fort Riley, Kansas. The protester contends that Ultima's price is unreasonably low and that the awardee lacks relevant experience. We deny the protest. The RFQ requested prices for a base and 3 option years and contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract. In section M, the RFQ provided both for award to the lowest-priced responsible vendor, and for award to the responsible vendor submitting the quotation evaluated as most advantageous to the Government, price and past performance (which were of equal weight) considered. 1 We note that while the solicitation was styled a request for quotations, in various places it uses terms associated with a request for proposals, and specifically provides for award of a contract to the successful firm. See RFP § L at 58; § M at 60.

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