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B-406117.2 1 (2012-06-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqen0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * 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 i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: American Roofing & Metal Company, Inc. File: B-406117.2 Date: June 6, 2012 David F. Barton, Esq., and Elizabeth H. Connally, Esq., Gardner Law, for the protester. Lt. Col. Patrick L. Vergona, Department of the Army, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST An agency's rejection of the protester's low-priced proposal as unbalanced was reasonable, where the agency found the offer contained significantly overstated and understated line item prices and represented an unacceptable risk to the government. DECISION American Roofing & Metal Company, Inc., of San Antonio, Texas, protests the award of a contract to L.D. Tebben Company, Inc., of Austin, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 1 RX-1 1 -R-0003, issued by the Department of the Army, Mission & Installation Contracting Command, for roof repair and replacement services at Fort Riley, Kansas. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In October, 2010, American Roofing was awarded a $13 million indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for roof repair and replacement services at Fort Riley, Kansas. Protest, B-406117, at 6. The Army states that, after award, it became apparent that some of the contract's line-item prices were 33-65 percent higher than the prices submitted for these services by the next low offeror, and were 68-78 percent higher than the independent government estimate (IGE) for these services. See Protest, B-406117.2, Tab F, Agency-Level Protest Decision, at 1-2. The Army concluded that, because it was ordering more of these particular services

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