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B-283794 1 (1999-11-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Tony's Landscaping, Inc. File: B-283794 Date: November 23, 1999 Manuel Blanco for the protester. Jerry W. Aldridge, and John W. Huckle, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency was not required to conduct discussions but could have a limited exchange with proposed awardee pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation § 15.306(a)(2) for the purpose of clarifying and correcting proposed awardee's pricing error, where the existence of the clerical error and the price actually intended was clear from the proposal. DECISION Tony's Landscaping, Inc. protests the proposed award of a contract to Miranda's Landscaping, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. F04684-99-R-0006, issued by the Department of the Air Force for grounds maintenance at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The protester complains that the Air Force improperly allowed Miranda's Landscaping to correct its proposal price. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued as a competitive, section 8(a) set-aside, sought proposals to perform a variety of grounds maintenance services for a base year with 4 option years. For each contract year, offerors were requested to provide fixed prices under section I of the RFP under four service categories (for example, grounds maintenance (contract line item (CLIN) 0001), tree line maintenance (CLIN 0002), roadside maintenance and herbicide application (CLIN 0003), and herbicide/sterilant application (CLIN 0004)). RFP at 3-12. The pricing blanks for these CLINS were marked with an asterisk. Section I included two other CLINS for each contract year: CLIN 0005, task

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