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B-405417 1 (2011-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadogx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENTFoR-PUBICRELEASE 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: Mark Dunning Industries, Inc. File: B-405417 Date: October 6, 2011 Douglas P. Hibshman, Esq., Fox Rothschild LLP, for the protester. Thomas A. Coulter, Esq., and Nicole Hardin Brakstad, Esq., LeClair Ryan PC, for Container First Services, LLC, an intervenor. Captain Matthew E. Dyson, Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that low bid should be rejected as nonresponsive because it did not include a price for two line items is denied where dashes were inserted in the line items and the bid noted that the items would be provided at no charge or at $0. DECISION Mark Dunning Industries, Inc. (MDI), of Dothan, Alabama, protests the Department of the Army's award of a contract to Container First Services, LLC, (CFS) of Petersburg, Virginia, under invitation for bids (IFB) No. W91 QF5-1 1 -B-0001, for the collection, disposal, and recycling of solid waste. MDI asserts that the bid submitted by CFS should have been rejected as nonresponsive. We deny the protest. The IFB contemplated the award of a contract for one base year, with four one-year options and one six-month option. The base year and each option period were designated with a separate line item and each line item was comprised of sub-line items AA through AE. IFB at 64-82. The IFB required bidders to provide fixed prices for each sub-line item and a total price for each line item. Id. As relevant to this protest, for sub-line items AC offerors were required to propose a per ton disposal fee for recycling wood, grass and construction demolition that would be passed through to the government. For sub-line items AD offerors were required to propose a price to supply and maintain three thirty-cubic-yard self-contained compactors. The IFB provided that award would be made to the low priced, responsive, responsible bidder. IFB at 105.

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