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B-401751 1 (2009-10-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbax0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 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: Manthos Engineering, LLC File: B-401751 Date: October 16, 2009 Terry E. Thomason, Esq., Corianne W. Lau, Esq., and Jessica Y. K. Wong, Esq., Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, for the protester. Janis P. Rodriguez, Esq., and Ryan M. Kabacinski, Esq., U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's rejection of protester's proposal is denied where proposal lacked required option year pricing. DECISION Manthos Engineering, LLC., of Honolulu, Hawaii, protests the award of a contract to TEC, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTMA1RO9008, issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, for assistance in upgrading the harbors in Hawaii. Manthos complains that the agency improperly evaluated its cost proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP, which contemplated the award of a cost-reimbursement contract for a 3-year base period with four 1-year option periods, provided that cost would be evaluated by adding the total proposed cost for the base period and all option periods. RFP at 72. The RFP also stated that the agency intended to make award on the basis of initial proposals, without discussions. Id. at 65. Manthos submitted a cost proposal for the base period, but did not include any pricing for the option periods. Protest at 5; Agency Report at 4. The agency did not reject the proposal but, instead, attempted to calculate option prices from the information included in the proposal. The agency ultimately determined that TEC's proposal, not Manthos's, represented the best value, and thus made award to TEC. Manthos challenges the evaluation and selection decision on several grounds.

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