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B-293519 1 (2004-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaplf0001 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: All Building Services, Inc. File: B-293519 Date: March 23, 2004 Sam Z. Gdanski. Esq., Jeffrey I. Gdanski, Esq., and Scott H. Gdanski, Esq., for the protester. Rita M. Liotta, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against rejection of proposal as unacceptable is denied where, although proposal included acknowledgment of amendment adding contract line item number (CLIN) that added additional work, proposal did not include a price for the new CLIN because offeror submitted the original rather than the revised price schedule; by not submitting a price or indicating that the new CLIN would be performed at no charge, the offeror created doubt as to whether it was obligating itself to perform the additional work and the proposal therefore was technically unacceptable. DECISION All Building Services, Inc. (ABS) protests the General Services Administration's (GSA) award of a contract to Enovity, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-09P-03-KSC-0155, for operation and maintenance services at the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, California. ABS challenges the agency's rejection of its proposal as unacceptable. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued as a small business set-aside for a commercial item, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract, for a base year with four option years, for operation, maintenance and repair services. Award was to be made to the responsible offeror whose offer, conforming to the solicitation, would be most advantageous to the government, price and other factors considered. According to the RFP, the technical evaluation factors, when combined, were significantly more important than price. The RFP advised that since the agency intended to evaluate

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