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B-273028 1 (1996-11-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaekl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Copy Graphics File: B-273028 Date: November 13, 1996 Edward W. Stivers for the protester. Kerry L. Miller, Esq., Government Printing Office, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's low bid was properly rejected as unbalanced where it contained mathematically unbalanced prices and the agency had a reasonable doubt, in light of the uncertainty associated with solicitation estimates, that award on the basis of the protester's bid would result in the lowest overall cost to the government. DECISION Copy Graphics protests the rejection of its low bid as unbalanced under invitation for bids (IFB) 717-S, issued by the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) for the printing and distribution of general wage determination reports of the Department of Labor. Copy Graphics argues that its low bid was improperly rejected. We deny the protest. The IFB contemplated the award of a fixed-price requirements contract for the production of the reports. Price entries were required for three groups of items: (1) printing and binding; (2) packing--including bulk shipments and mailing; and, (3) additional operations. The printing and binding group contains two individual items, with two prices each and the packing group contains four items under bulk shipments and three items under mailing. The additional operations group has two items: upgrading the mailing list and handling undeliverable packages. The IFB listed estimated requirements to produce 1 year's production for each of the 13 item prices required.1 As to packing specifications, while the IFB specified, among other 1For example, the agency estimated 61,776 pages for makeready and/or setup for the weekly updates and 10,711 pages for makeready and/or setup for the annual report. (continued...) 2441113

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