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B-413722.2 1 (2017-01-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadszm0001 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 version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Ripple Effect Communications, Inc. File: B-413722.2 Date: January 17, 2017 Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., Julia Di Vito, Esq., and Stephen J. Kelleher, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. CPT Sarah E. Park, Department of the Army, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging solicitation amendment clarifying that agency will not evaluate fixed prices for price realism is denied where the agency has wide discretion when deciding whether to include a realism evaluation provision in a solicitation for the award of a fixed-price contract. DECISION Ripple Effect Communications, Inc., a small business of Rockville, MD, protests the United States Army's proposed corrective action related to a prior protest filed by Venesco, LLC, a small business of Chantilly, VA, of solicitation No. W81XWH-16-R- 0023, for program administration and technical support services. The protester contends that the agency's proposed corrective action is unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On March 21, 2016, the agency published the instant solicitation providing for the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. While the solicitation initially provided that price would be evaluated for fairness and reasonableness, subsequent agency answers to industry questions included inconsistent statements regarding the scope of the agency's price evaluation. See RFP at 34-35 and RFP Amendment 0002 at 4. Specifically, the industry questions and answers, which were incorporated in the solicitation via amendment, in some

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