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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision REDACTED DECISION
A protected decision was issued on the date below
and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This
version has been redacted or approved by the parties
involved for public release..
Matter of: DuVALL Services Company
File: B-265698.2
Date: February 7, 1996
Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., and Craig A. Holman, Esq., Holland & Knight, for the
protester.
Mike Colvin, Department of Health & Human Services, for the agency.
Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Contracting agency's determination to exclude protester's low-rated proposal from a
revised competitive range was reasonable where protester, which proposed a higher
price than the proposed awardee at the time of its exclusion, only offered staffing
amounting to approximately [deleted] of the staffing offered by the proposed
awardee even after contracting agency sent the protester a discussion item
questioning the adequacy of its staffing.
DECISION
DuVALL Services Company (DSC) protests the exclusion of its proposal from the
competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. 263-95-P(BB)-0109, issued
by the National Institutes of Health, for maintenance and repair services for
government-owned Dupont/Sorvall scientific instruments.
We deny the protest.
The requirement was for on-site full service maintenance, including preventive
maintenance, inspection, and emergency repair of the scientific instruments located
at Bethesda, Maryland, and Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.1 The RFP was
issued on February 24, 1995, and contemplated the award of a fixed-price
requirements contract for one year with four 1-year options at the Bethesda site.
The RFP required emergency repairs to be completed within 48 hours. Technical
1Under the terms of the RFP, offerors could submit proposal for one or both sites.
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