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B-288331 1 (2001-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamrt0001 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 Decision Matter of: TNT Industrial Contractors, Inc. File: B-288331 Date: September 25, 2001 Scott W. Goodall for the protester. Daniel J. Dykstra, Jr., Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Since the evaluation of bids must be based on the actual likely cost to the government for the project, agency properly did not consider deductive items as part of the total price where funds were available for the entire project. DECISION TNT Industrial Contractors, Inc. protests the intended award of a construction contract to All Cities Enterprises by the Army Corps of Engineers under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DACA05-01-B-0001 for a water treatment plant at Beale Air Force Base in California. TNT contends that the agency failed to evaluate all the line items listed on the IFB pricing schedule as contemplated by the solicitation, and that TNT submitted the lowest aggregate bid, and therefore it should have received the award. We deny the protest. The IFB was issued on April 10, 2001 as a competitive set-aside for eligible firms under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program.' As amended, the IFB required bidders to complete a pricing schedule by entering lump- sum prices for the basic requirements and for each of the four option items of work, 1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a) (1994), authorizes the SBA to contract with government agencies and to arrange for the performance of such contracts by awarding subcontracts to socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses.

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