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B-278330 1 (1998-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahnz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: McCombs Fleet Services File: B-278330 Date: January 16, 1998 Tenley A. Carp, Esq., Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, for the protester. Michael D. Tully, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Robert Arsenoff, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that offerors were treated unequally to the detriment of the protester is denied where the allegation stems from the protester's having been appropriately cautioned by the contracting officer about the requirement for independent pricing, in response to an open-ended question about the possibility of making an unspecified arrangement under which one individual would sign separate offers for product lines of three competing truck manufacturers, while other offerors submitted successful proposals that the protester incorrectly believes should have been understood to evidence a violation of the requirement for independent pricing. DECISION McCombs Fleet Services protests contract awards to Johnsons of Kingfisher and Carter Chevrolet Agency, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. FCAP-FM- CCWTB-8-14-97, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for light truck assemblies consisting of cabs and chassis made by Ford Motor Company, the Chrysler Corporation, and General Motors Corporation (GM), and bodies fabricated to meet the government's specifications. The crux of the protest is that offerors were treated unequally to the detriment of McCombs. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on June 15, 1997, with a closing date of August 14, contemplated award on the basis of evaluated low price of indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts for various line items representing different truck configurations. Separate contracts were to be awarded under each line item for Chrysler, Ford, and GM products.

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