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B-271505 1 (1996-06-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaees0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Clifford La Tourelle File: B-271505 Date: June 5, 1996 Clifford La Tourelle for the protester. Allen W. Smith for the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, the agency. Christine Davis, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST The inspection system established by a solicitation to evaluate the quality of a contractor's tree thinning services is sufficiently definite and unambiguous, where it gives bidders adequate guidance as to which trees to cut and which trees to leave and contains an inspection system that corresponds with this tree thinning guidance. DECISION Clifford La Tourelle protests the terms of invitation for bids (IFB) No. R1O-03-96-02, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, to obtain tree thinning services in various areas of the Tongass National Forest, Alaska. The protester contends that the inspection system established by the IFB is unclear. We deny the protest. The IFB requested firm, fixed-prices for three line items. Each line item corresponded with specific areas of the forest and units of acreage to be thinned. The contractor was responsible for selecting those trees to be cut and those to be left, based upon guidance provided in the IFB specifications. In selecting which trees to retain, the contractor was to favor the larger, better-formed, more vigorous trees over diseased, forked, malformed, or damaged trees. In addition, the contractor was to maintain a distance of approximately 14 feet, stem to stem, between the trees to be retained. The contractor could increase or decrease the 14-foot distance between individual trees by 25 percent, if this was necessary to retain a better tree. However, the contractor could not exercise this spacing variation in such a way as to alter the average number of trees per acre that the government wished to retain. The IFB estimated that the contractor should retain 222 trees per acre, based upon the 14-foot by 14-foot spacing. 618524

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