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A G A O Comptroller General
. Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: Muddy Creek Oil and Gas, Inc.
File: B-296836
Date: August 9, 2005
Patricia Pourier for the protester.
Jeanne A. Anderson, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency.
Andrew J. Stephens, Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of
the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Where a protester's response to a request for quotations altered material terms and
conditions of the solicitation, the agency reasonably determined that the quotation
was unacceptable.
DECISION
Muddy Creek Oil and Gas, Inc. protests a determination by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Department of the Interior, that Muddy Creek's quotation, submitted in
response to request for quotations No. RMA00050005 (RFQ) for firefighter meals,
was unacceptable.
We deny the protest.
On June 15, 2005, Muddy Creek received by fax a solicitation to provide firefighter
meals. On June 22, Muddy Creek replied to the Bureau with its quotation, on the
face of which the protester had handwritten a number of alterations and additions to
the terms of the statement of work. The agency deemed the Muddy Creek quotation
to be unacceptable because it altered material terms of the solicitation, and this
protest followed.
The record here shows that where the solicitation specified that all meals be
delivered to the Airport at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Muddy Creek changed the
statement of work to require that all meals be picked up at its downtown location.
Agency Report, Attach. B at 23. Where the solicitation specified that the lunch meal
be a sack lunch with a sub style sandwich, chips, fruit, and candy bar, Muddy
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