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B-284684 1 (2000-05-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalaz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __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. Decision Matter of: Hydraulics International, Inc. File: B-284684; B-284684.2 Date: May 24, 2000 Alan Dickson, Esq., Paul Burkholder, Esq., and Shlomo D. Katz, Esq., Epstein, Becker & Green, for the protester. Lee P. Curtis, Esq., Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, and Donald J. Carney, Esq., and Richard B. Clifford, Jr., Esq., Perkins Coie, for Malabar International, Inc., an intervenor. John E. Larriccia, Esq., and Sharon A. Jenks, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly failed to advise protester during discussions that its price was so high as to make award to the firm unlikely, is denied where contemporaneous record indicates that agency determined that proposed price was reasonable, realistic and complete based on the technical approach; while Federal Acquisition Regulation § 15.306(e)(3) gives contracting officer discretion to inform offeror that its cost/price is too high, it does not require that the contracting officer do so. 2. Protest that agency conducted an improper cost/technical tradeoff is denied where record indicates that agency recognized the technical advantages of the protester's proposal, but reasonably determined that those advantages were not worth its substantially higher price.

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