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B-278371 1 (1998-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahof0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Hardcore DuPont Composites, L.L.C. File: B-278371 Date: January 20, 1998 David G. Obarski for the protester. Lester Edelman, Esq., and Brian Kennedy, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Adam Vodraska, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency's determination that small business set-aside offer is reasonably priced is legally unobjectionable where it was based on the agency's comparison of proposed prices received in response to the solicitation, including the price submitted by the protester; while the protester reduced its price following its disqualification as a small business, the award price was lower than the protester's initial offer. DECISION Hardcore DuPont Composites, L.L.C. protests the award of a firm, fixed-price contract to Lancaster Composites, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DACW39-97-R-0038, a total small business set-aside, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, for a composite fender pile system to be installed on both sides of a channel under the Lake Pontchartrain causeway bridge in Louisiana. The system is being procured in support of an intergovernmental agreement between the agency and the Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission.1 We deny the protest. 1The RFP specifies that the fender piles shall be composed substantially of fiber reinforced polymer composite materials to protect bridge piers along the channel, and will replace an existing timber pile system with one more suitable for the lake's environment in terms of structural and material performance, longevity, and environmental protection. Although the successful offeror under this RFP will provide all necessary structural elements, other system components, and connectors that constitute a fully functional fender pile system, the actual removal of the existing fender system and installation of the new system will be accomplished under a separate construction contract with the Commission.

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