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B-291092 1 (2002-11-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaohy0001 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: Maryland Office Relocators File: B-291092 Date: November 12, 2002 D. Cameron Amick for the protester. Alex Tang, Esq., and Christian S. White, Esq., Federal Trade Commission, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation required that an offeror's fixed price for basic moving services include the cost of all required packing materials, but also specifically required the offeror to specify how many crates were included in its fixed price and the cost of additional crates, agency reasonably adjusted protester's evaluated price upward to reflect its finding that protester's proposal did not include a sufficient number of crates to perform the work. DECISION Maryland Office Relocators (MOR) protests the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) award of a contract to Office Movers, Inc. (OMI) under solicitation No. 29-2-Q-0022, for moving services. MOR challenges the evaluation of proposals.' We deny the protest. The solicitation provided for award of a contract for transportation and related moving services to relocate several FTC bureaus and offices, including a total of approximately 513 employees, from two Washington, D.C. locations to a third over 'Although the solicitation was termed an RFQ in block 14 of Standard Form 1449, it was elsewhere described as a request for proposals and the agency views it as such. Solicitation at 13-15, Amend. No. 2, Mover RFP Questions; see Contracting Officer's Statement (COS), at 1; Memorandum of Law at 1. The proper designation is not relevant to our discussion here.

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