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B-294242 1 (2004-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapnz0001 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: Mindleaf Technologies, Inc. File: B-294242, B-294242.2 Date: August 24, 2004 Paresh K. Shah for the protester. Clarence D. Long III, Esq., and Capt. David W. Armstrong, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Paul F. Khoury, Esq., and William J. Grimaldi, Esq., Wiley Rein & Fielding, for KMR, LLC, an intervenor. Matthew T. Crosby and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably determined that awardee's proposal price was not unrealistically low where awardee's price was in line with the prices of two other competitive proposals. DECISION Mindleaf Technologies, Inc. protests the award of a contract to KMR, LLC under request for proposals FA2823-04-R-0009, issued by the Department of the Air Force for operation of central appointments and referral centers for healthcare services at Eglin Air Force Base and Hurlburt Field, Florida. Mindleaf challenges the reasonableness of the agency's price analysis and performance risk determinations, and alleges that it suffered a competitive disadvantage due to disclosure of the firm's pricing information. We deny the protest. On August 1, 2003, the Air Force issued a request for quotations (RFQ) for centralized appointment and referral services (CA/RS) for military healthcare facilities at Eglin Air Force Base and Hurlburt Field, Florida. The RFQ, issued as a small business set aside, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract to a Federal Supply Schedule vendor in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 8.4. The selected vendor was to operate a number of call centers and

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