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B-271215 1 (1996-05-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaedj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Nomura Enterprise, Inc. File: B-271215 Date: May 24, 1996 Al Weed, Nomura Enterprise, Inc., for the protester. Kerry Miller, Esq., Government Printing Office for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. No basis exist to object to the agency's price reasonableness determination of the awardee's bid merely because the price was higher than the protester's intended bid. 2. Bid is not materially unbalanced where there is no evidence that the awardee's bid will not result in the lowest ultimate cost to the government. 3. Alleged oral advice from government official that varies the terms of an unambiguous solicitation is not binding on the agency and may not reasonably be relied upon by potential bidders. DECISION Nomura Enterprise, Inc. protests the award of a contract to I-NET, Inc. under invitation for bids (IFB) No. A-899-S, issued by the Government Printing Office (GPO), for electronic conversion and Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) tagging of technical publications. Nomura contends that the agency made award to I-NET at an unreasonably high price, that I-NET's bid was mathematically and materially unbalanced, and that an IFB amendment and oral advice rendered the specifications ambiguous or defective, which caused Nomura to submit a bid containing a mistake. We deny the protest. The GPO issued the IFB to obtain a contractor to convert paper-based technical publications to electronic text and graphic files with embedded SGML tags for the Department of the Army, Aviation and Troop Command (ATCOM). The IFB contemplated the award of a fixed price requirements contract for a 6-month base period with 2 option years. Bidders were required to submit individual line item 340523

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