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B-310814 1 (2008-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavye0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Accumark, Inc. File: B-310814 Date: February 13, 2008 Thomas 0. Mason, Esq., and Francis E. Purcell, Jr., Esq., Williams Mullen, for the protester. John Pope Midyette for InfraMap Corporation, an intervenor. Dave Nimmich, Esq., Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency unreasonably found that awardee's prices were realistic under a fixed-price contract is denied where record shows agency based its determination on a comparison of all offerors' prices to one another and to the government estimate, and all prices received were within a narrow range. 2. Protest that agency should have rejected awardee's proposal for offering unbalanced prices is denied where awardee's price was low overall and, to extent that its prices for one element of contract were high in comparison to other offerors' prices and government estimate, record shows estimated quantity for that element was reasonably accurate; thus, based on the record, there is little risk that award will not result in lowest cost to government. DECISION Accumark, Inc. protests the award of a contract to InfraMap Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. N40085-05-R-2545, issued by the Department of the Navy to acquire utility and underground facilities locating and marking services at various Naval facilities in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. Accumark asserts that the agency misevaluated the awardee's price proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite- quantity (ID/IQ) contract for a base period, with 4 option years and 5 award option years. Award was to be made on a best value basis, considering price and three

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