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B-402645.2 1 (2010-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadblc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: International Management Services, Inc. File: B-402645.2 Date: August 25, 2010 Richard D. Lieberman, Esq., Garry S. Grossman, Esq., and Gabriel D. Soll, Esq., McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, P.C., for the protester. Vera Meza, Esq., and Leslie Nepper, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that terms of solicitation were ambiguous is denied where protester did not show that challenged terms were susceptible of more than one reasonable interpretation, and solicitation did not impose undue risk on contractor. DECISION International Management Services, Inc. (IMSI), of Rumford, Maine, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W52PlJ-10-R-0050 issued by the Army Materiel Command for postal operations services at multiple locations in Afghanistan under a fixed-price performance-based contract. IMSI argues that the terms of the RFP are improperly ambiguous because it is not clear when the contractor will be entitled to additional compensation under a surge request due to increased mail volume. We deny the protest. The Army issued the RFP on February 9, 2010, seeking proposals to perform mail handling services at Army Post Offices (APO) at Baghram Air Field (BAF) and Kandahar Air Field (KAF) for a base year and four option years. Among other things, the performance work statement (PWS) in the RFP set forth a base requirement; that is, the volume of mail (expressed in pounds) for KAF APOs, and the volume for BAF APOs. Agency Report (AR) Tab 25, RFP Pricing Matrix, at 1-7. The RFP provided historical data on the existing APOs at each airfield, and their mail volumes, while

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