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B-290626 1 (2002-09-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaogk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Planned Systems International, Inc. File: B-290626 Date: September 4, 2002 Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., and Dorn C. McGrath III, Esq., Reed Smith, for the protester. Captain Parag J. Rawal, Department of the Army, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Procuring agency properly calculated protester's quoted price based upon the labor hour estimates identified by the request for quotation (RFQ), rather than the protester's own estimates, where the RFQ only sought vendors' fixed labor hour rates which were to be applied against the stated labor hour estimates to determine vendors' net quoted prices and award was to be made upon the basis of price. DECISION Planned Systems International, Inc. protests the issuance of a purchase order to Federal Resources Corporation under that firm's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. DAMD17-02-T-0137, issued by the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for video teleconferencing services. Planned Systems contends that the Army improperly recalculated its quoted price. We deny the protest. The Army issued the RFQ on April 12, 2002 to obtain fixed unit-price quotes for various video teleconferencing services under the FSS to support the United States Army Medical Information Systems and Services Agency at San Antonio, Texas, for a 3-month base period and 2 option years. The RFQ identified 12 contract line items (CLIN), for each of which vendors were to provide a unit price and an extended (net) price. Nine of the CLINs provided a specific quantity of labor hours, which represented the government's estimate of the work for the item and against which a vendor's unit price would be applied to determine the extended total for these

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