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B-284546 1 (2000-05-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalap0001 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: Coffman Specialties, Inc. File: B-284546; B-284546.2 Date: May 10, 2000 Kerri M. Melucci, Esq., Braun, Melucci & Bright, for the protester. Michael L. Murphy, Jr., Esq., Sylvester Law Office, for Dar-Hil Corporation, an intervenor. Daniel J. Dykstra, Jr., Esq., and William L. Henson, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Cheri C. Wolff, Esq., and Kenneth W. Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration. Christine F. Davis, Esq., and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably downgraded proposal that failed to comply with solicitation's formatting requirements, including limits on the number of pages and projects to address particular evaluation subfac to rs. 2. Where proposal, on its face, does not reasonably lead the agency to conclude that the offeror will not comply with the subcontracting limitation contained in the solicitation, the offeror's compliance concerns a matter of responsibility or contract administration, not for review by the General Accounting Office. DECISION Coffman Specialties, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Dar-Hil Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. DACA05-99-R-0059, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the design and construction of an aircraft processing ramp at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. Coffman protests the evaluation of its own and the awardee's proposals, and contends that the awardee will exceed the subcontracting limitation included in the RFP. We deny the protest. The RFP, a small business set-aside, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract based on initial proposals. RFP at Department of Defense Form 1707,

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