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B-289305 1 (2002-02-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaocn0001 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 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: Uniband, Inc. File: B-289305 Date: February 8, 2002 John E. Jensen, Esq., and Daniel S. Herzfeld, Esq., Shaw Pittman, for the protester. Robert J. Sherry, Esq., Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, for ACS Government Services, Inc., an intervenor. Elizabeth Gaffin, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's post-protest reevaluation of one aspect of price realism of awardee's quote will be considered and weighed appropriately by the General Accounting Office in rendering its decision, where the agency conceded its error, the reevaluation was limited in scope (given that much of the agency's initial price realism evaluation was unobjectionable), and the reevaluation primarily required only the application of rather simple arithmetic calculations. 2. Agency's determination that awardee's quote was reasonable and realistic with regard to price is unobjectionable where the agency's price evaluation was relatively detailed and applied a variety of price analysis techniques and considered, among other things, the awardee's proposed approach to accomplish the work required and familiarity with the work as the result of the awardee having served as the incumbent subcontractor; fact that the agency's initial price realism analysis was flawed in one respect does not render the agency's determination unreasonable where this problem was reasonably addressed in a reevaluation performed during the course of the protest and the other aspects of the price analysis supported the agency's determination. 3. Agency conducted meaningful discussions where it brought its principal concerns about the protester's quote to the protester's attention; the agency was not required to inform the protester that its proposed price was high relative to the awardee's where the agency did not consider the protester's proposed price excessive or unreasonable.

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