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B-276750 1 (1997-07-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafzo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Quality Elevator Company, Inc. File: B-276750 Date: July 23, 1997 William H. Carroll, Esq., and George W. Ash, Esq., Dykema Gossett, for the protester. James A. Hughes, Esq., Patton Boggs, L.L.P., for Maryland Elevator Services, Inc., an interveno r. Terrence J. Tychan and Michael Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Tania L. Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting agency's evaluation of proposals was unreasonable because it was inadequately documented is denied; even though the contemporaneous record contained nothing more than the maximum point scores assigned to both offerors' proposals, the post-protest narrative explanations provided by the agency provide sufficient detail to judge the reasonableness of the evaluation, considering the similarity between the two proposals. 2. In the award of a firm, fixed-price contract, agency's price realism evaluation which compared the awardee's proposed price to that of the other offeror, the current contract pricing, and the government estimate is unobjectionable; that the award price was 14 percent below the government estimate does not show that the awardee's price was unreasonably low or that the price realism evaluation was inadequate. DECISION Quality Elevator Company, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Maryland Elevator Services, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFP-36-96-HHS-OS, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for elevator maintenance and repair services at the agency's Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C. Quality argues that the agency's evaluation of proposals was unreasonable. We deny the protest.

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