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B-282373.3 1 (1999-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajjq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Vero Technical Services File: B-282373.3; B-282373.4 Date: August 31, 1999 George Sigler for the protester. Maj. Richard D. Desmond and Capt. Karen L. Deimler, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that proposal containing entries of NSP for two solicitation line items must be rejected as unacceptable is denied where solicitation did not require rejection of the offer; the NSP entries obligate the offeror to provide the required items. DECISION Vero Technical Services protests the award of a contract to C. Martin Company under request for proposals (RFP) No. F16602-99-R-0003, issued as a small business set-aside by the Department of the Air Force for the operation and maintenance of the Claiborne Bombing Range. The protester contends that C. Martin's proposal should have been rejected as unacceptable because it did not contain separate prices for each line item in Schedule B of the RFP. The protester also contends that C. Martin's price entries reflected an unfair competitive advantage based on special knowledge concerning the solicitation. Supplemental Protest, July 9, 1999, at 1. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued on December 31, 1998, contemplated the award of a fixed-price requirements contract for a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. The RFP called for technical evaluation to determine conformance under enumerated areas and stated that award would be made to the responsible offeror whose offer conforms to the solicitation, is determined technically acceptable based on the evaluation criteria, and offers the lowest evaluated price, based on the total price for the base year and all options years. RFP § M-502. The RFP required that offerors submit an offer for all items listed in the schedule and further stated that

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