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B-277048 1 (1997-08-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagat0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: HSQ Technology File: B-277048 Date: August 21, 1997 Paul H. Sanderford, Esq., Pratt & Sanderford, for the protester. Gary M. Henningsen, Esq., and Catherine E. Barnum, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Wm. David Hasfurther, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably rejected proposal as unacceptable where proposal exceeded page limit set out in the solicitation and agency reasonably concluded that proposal without excess pages was unacceptable, since it lacked material sections of the technical proposal and the entire price proposal. DECISION HSQ Technology protests the rejection of its proposal to supply power plant controls for a dam system under Department of the Army request for proposals (RFP) No. DACW45-96-R-0050. The agency excluded HSQ's proposal from further consideration because it contained substantially more pages than permitted under the RFP page limitation. HSQ contends that, had the agency refrained from counting attachments and other items not subject to page limitations, its proposal would have been compliant. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on December 10, 1996, requested the submission of proposals consisting of four volumes: (1) offer and other documents, (2) qualifications statement, (3) business management/technical, (4) and price. The RFP set out the required print and page margin sizes and required that the overall proposals be strictly limited to 300 pages. It advised that submitting a proposal containing more than 300 pages will be considered failure to comply with solicitation requirements, and that such noncompliance could result in elimination of the offer from the evaluation process. The RFP also listed subelements to be evaluated under the business management and technical portions of the proposal. Five proposals were received by the amended February 4, 1997, deadline for proposal submission.

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