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B-310535 1 (2008-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavxb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Utility Tool & Trailer, Inc. File: B-310535 Date: January 3, 2008 Joe Weiland, Utility Tool & Trailer, Inc., for the protester. Jeffrey I. Kessler, Esq., and Christopher Van der Waerden, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's selection of an offeror with lower-rated delivery schedule and lower-priced proposal is denied where the agency reasonably decided that the price premium involved in selecting the protester's higher-priced proposal to obtain the benefit of that proposal's slightly more favorable delivery schedule was not justified. DECISION Utility Tool & Trailer, Inc. (UTT) protests the award of a requirements-type contract to Schutt Industries, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV-07-R-G094, issued by the United States Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) for 5-ton dual axle trailers. UTT argues that the agency abandoned the stated evaluation criteria (and made an unreasonable best value decision) when it failed to select UTT's higher-priced proposal offering shorter delivery times and applied unreasonable calculations for freight costs to portions of its proposals. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on April 13, 2007, provided for the award of a 3-year requirements contract for delivery of 5-ton dual-axle trailers for use in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for potential foreign military sales. The RFP included an estimated first-year quantity of 75 trailers destined for Afghanistan (to be priced FOB Origin) and 6 trailers destined for Iraq (to be priced FOB Destination). The RFP also included an

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