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B-284107 1 (2000-02-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakzk0001 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: Enco Dredging File: B-284107 Date: February 22, 2000 Christopher T. McRae, Esq., McRae & Metcalf, for the protester. Stephen R. Miller, Esq., Miller Law Firm, for L.W. Matteson, Inc., an interested party. Sherry K Kaswell, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Wm. David Hasfurther, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Bid was responsive notwithstanding bidder's failure to limit its mobilization/demobilization price to 5 percent of total bid price where limit was not mandatory, and solicitation provided for payment of amount above 5-percent limit only after the contract work had been substantially completed. 2. Bid was not unbalanced where agency reasonably concluded that, even if prices were unbalanced, there was no unacceptable risk to government, since total price for work that was ordered was low and would remain low for any additional quantities ordered. DECISION Enco Dredging protests the award to L.W. Matteson, Inc. of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 99-SI-34-0412, issued by the Yuma (Arizona) Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), Department of the Interior, to obtain maintenance dredging of the Colorado River above the Imperial Dam. Enco basically contends that Matteson's bid should have been rejected as nonresponsive. We deny the protest. The IFB requested the submission of a lump-sum price for line item No. 1, mobilization/demobilization, and unit and extended prices for the two sub-items of line item No. 2. Prices were to include the furnishing of all labor, material,

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