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B-407941.2 1 (2013-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadptj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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. D e c is io n ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: Gulf Master General Trading, LLC File: B-407941.2 Date: July 15, 2013 Eric S. Crusius, Esq., James. S. Phillips, Esq., Stephen P. Ramaley, Esq., and Dov Szego, Esq., Centre Law Group, LLC, for the protester. Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., Vedder Price PC, for Abu Dhabi Supplies and Commercial Services, the intervenor. Christopher S. Cole, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Brent Burris, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly rejected proposal due to unbalanced pricing is denied where agency reasonably determined that the protester's prices were unbalanced and that the unbalanced pricing posed an unacceptable risk to the government. DECISION Gulf Master General Trading, LLC (Gulf Master) protests the rejection of its proposal under Solicitation No. FA5706-12-R-0030, issued by the United States Air Force for vehicle leasing services at Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. Gulf Master contends that the agency unreasonably determined that its proposed pricing was unbalanced. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on November 22, 2012, anticipated the award of a single indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a 1-year base period of performance, and four 1-year option periods. Agency Report (AR), Exhibit (Exh.) 2, Contracting Officer's Statement of Facts (CO Statement), at 1-2. Offerors were required to submit contract line item (CLIN) prices for 20 different types of vehicles for each year of the contract based on the estimated number of vehicles provided in

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