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B-276416 1 (1997-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafyh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Wright Tool Company File: B-276416 Date: June 10, 1997 Sam Zalman Gdanski, Esq., for the protester. Joshua A. Kranzberg, Esq., and Arthur M. Boley, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that low priced proposal should be rejected as unbalanced is dismissed where proposal is low for both items being procured under a solicitation which provides for separate awards by item, in which circumstances there is no possibility of material unbalancing. DECISION Wright Tool Company protests the award of a contract to SPX Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAE07-95-R-A607, issued by the Department of the Army. Wright argues that SPX's proposal should have been rejected as unbalanced. We dismiss the protest. The RFP, issued on February 15, 1996, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for fixed quantities of two different service tool kits. The solicitation, which provided that award would be made on the basis of the low priced, technically acceptable offer, required offerors to submit separate prices for each of the tool kits that they intended to offer, and contained a provision which allowed for separate awards for each tool kit. Contract line item (CLIN) 0001 was for 661 of the organizational support (OS) tool kits, consisting of 28 tools, and CLIN 0002 was for a 100-percent option for the OS tool kit. CLIN 0003 was for 75 of the General Support (GS) tool kits, consisting of 98 tools, and CLIN 0004 was a 100-percent option for the GS tool kit. The solicitation also notified offerors that the procurement was limited to kits consisting of tools specifically identified in the technical data package and that contractors proposing to submit alternate tools were required to submit technical data and/or samples for evaluation prior to the solicitation closing date.

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