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B-282634 1 (1999-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajkh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: Red River Service Corporation File: B-282634; B-282634.2 Date: July 15, 1999 Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Law Office of Theodore M. Bailey, for the protester. Ross L. Crown, Esq., Eastham Johnson Monnheimer & Jontz, for Phillips National, Inc., an intervenor. Richard Welsh, Esq., Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Award based on proposal that included unbalanced pricing was proper where agency specifically and reasonably determined that the unbalancing did not pose an unacceptable risk to the government and would not result in the government's paying unreasonably high prices. DECISION Red River Service Corporation protests the award of a contract to Phillips National, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. N62467-98-R-1037, issued by the Department of the Navy for multi-family housing maintenance services in Millington, Tennessee. Red River argues that the proposal submitted by Phillips should have been rejected because it contains unbalanced pricing. We deny the protest. The solicitation, for a base period with four 1-year options, provided that a contract would be awarded on the basis of the best value to the government, with the combined technical evaluation factors (past performance, experience, methods and understanding, and resources), being approximately equal in weight to price. RFP § M.2. The solicitation consisted of definite- and indefinite-quantity line items, for both of which offerors were to propose fixed unit prices. RFP § B.

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