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B-288653 1 (2001-10-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamsk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Royal Hawaiian Movers, Inc. File: B-288653 Date: October 31, 2001 Marjorie A. Stender, Esq., Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, for the protester. Elizabeth Rivera, Esq., and Lori W.L. Chang, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Notwithstanding a provision in a request for proposals that price revisions could only be made during a reverse auction, the agency reasonably determined to request revised price proposals after the end of the auction, in response to an agency-level protest, where the solicitation was ambiguous concerning when the auction would end and the agency reasonably believed that offerors may have been misled. DECISION Royal Hawaiian Movers, Inc. protests the agency's decision to obtain revised proposals under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00604-01-R-A014, issued by the Department of the Navy for drayage services in Hawaii. Royal Hawaiian contends that it was entitled to award on the basis of its low price under a reverse auction conducted by the agency prior to the request for revised proposals. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued as a total small business set-aside, provided for the award of fixed-price, requirements contract to perform drayage services (movement of containers) between points on Oahu, Hawaii for a base year with 4 option years. Offerors were informed that award would be made to the offeror submitting the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offer. The RFP provided for a reverse auction after the submission of initial price proposals. Detailed instructions, including a Bidder's Guide, were provided for the conduct of the reverse auction. RFP amend. 5, at 2-21. Among other things, offerors

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