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B-408993.2 1 (2014-02-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqcf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Lulus Ostrich Ranch File: B-408993.2 Date: February 21, 2014 William R. Hayward, Lulus Ostrich Ranch, for the protester. James L. Weiner, Esq., and Sarah T. Zaffina, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is dismissed where a challenge to the solicitation's past performance evaluation methodology was not filed until after the agency had received responses, completed its review, and issued the purchase order. 2. Protest arguing that the awardee's price is too low is denied where the solicitation provided for the award of a fixed-price purchase order and did not provide for the evaluation of the realism of prices. DECISION Lulus Ostrich Ranch of San Marcos, Texas, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Durham Communications, Inc., of Mesa, Arizona, by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 513027 for the design and implementation of a turnkey radio system to deliver voice (radio) to NPS areas on the islands and surrounding waters of Ta'u and Ofu in American Samoa. Lulus contends that the solicitation was defective because it did not contain the past performance questionnaire forms, and also contends that the awardee submitted an unreasonably low price. We dismiss in part, and deny in part, the protest.' 1 Our Office did not issue a protective order in connection with this protest because Lulus did not elect to retain counsel. A full version of the agency report was (continued...)

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