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B-186424 1 (1976-09-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadczg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: M r.> S C - F THE UNITED S3TATES3 Wf. \A SH I N GTON,0 DC 2O054 G FILE: B-186424 DATE: September 15, 1976 MATTER OF: RKFM Products Corporation DIGEST: 1. Although proposal was found technically acceptable, decision to exclude it from competitive range and from further negotiations was not arbitrary and unreasonable since award was to be made based on lowest price of technically acceptable proposals and it was unlikely that protester would have lowered its price sufficiently to make it reasonably competitive. 2. Protester's claim that it submitted an alternate proposal which would have placed it within competitive range and such proposal was not considered is rejected as there was nothing in the basic proposal to indicate the existence of an alternate proposal. 3. Modification of proposal received over 3 months after established date for receipt of proposals was properly excluded under terms of RFP and ASPR § 7-2002.4 (1975 ed.). The RKFM United States include it in under request sequent award Products Corporation (RKFM) protests the failure of the Army Armament Command, Rock Island, Illinois (Army), to negotiations for the award of a fixed-price contract for proposals (RFP) No. DAAA-09-76-R-0037 and the sub- by the Army to another firm. On December 17, 1975, the Army sent RFP's to 21 prospective offerors soliciting proposals for the design, layout, procurement and installation of production equipment and production support equip- ment and for the manufacture of certain quantities of M42 and 1146 grenade parts. An additional 45 RFP's were requested from other prospective offerors after publication of the notice of the procurement in the Commerce Lusiness Daily. Offerors were encouraged to submit proposals based upon a production capacity of 1.5 million grenade parts per month (item 0001), or 3 million parts per month (item 0002). The established date for receipt of proposals was February 23, 1976. Of the 19 offerors submitting proposals on both items 0001 and 0002, 12 were found to be technically acceptable on item 0001 and 9 were considered technically acceptable regarding item 0002. - 1 I I . .

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