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B-287160 1 (2001-03-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamow0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Matter of: International Resources Recovery, Inc. File: B-287160 Date: March 30, 2001 Sam Z. Gdanski, Esq., for the protester. Clarence D. Long, III, Esq., and Wayne A. Warner, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Discussions with protester concerning unrealistic prices were meaningful where agency identified specific line item prices that it considered too low and stated that the overall price was too low, and provided the protester an unrestricted opportunity to submit final proposal revisions. DECISION International Resources Recovery, Inc. (IRRI) protests an award to Urrutia, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. F08651-00-R-0035, issued by the Department of the Air Force for refuse, recycling, and compost collection and disposal services at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued July 12, 2000, contemplated the award of a fixed-price, requirements contract for a base period with 4 option years. The RFP included 150 contract line item numbers (CLIN). The RFP stated an evaluation scheme under which the offer deemed most advantageous to the government would be selected for award from among the technically acceptable proposals, based on a trade-off analysis of past performance and price.' The RFP stated that past performance is significantly more important than price. RFP at 52. 1 The RFP did not require technical proposals; rather, an offeror only had to include a statement that it can meet the requirements and specifications of the RFP without exception. RFP at 52.

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