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B-278579 1 (1998-01-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahpc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Possehn Consulting File: B-278579 Date: January 9, 1998 Dennis Possehn for the protester. Daniel N. Hylton, Esq., and Richard Salazar, Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's contention that agency improperly rejected its price as unrealistically low is sustained because--absent technical evaluation criteria related to the concern about the protester's price--questions about a small business offeror's ability to perform at its proposed price in a fixed-price environment are matters of responsibility, the negative determination of which must be referred to the Small Business Administration. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the protester's proposal is denied where the evaluation was consistent with the stated evaluation criteria and reasonable. DECISION Possehn Consulting protests the award of two contracts--one to Steve Holmes Forestry and one to Shasta Land Management Consultants--by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. R5-06-97-33, issued for the location and installation of permanent forest inventory plots in the Lassen, Plumas, and Tahoe National Forests.1 Possehn argues that the agency improperly rejected its proposal on the basis that its prices were too low, and unreasonably rated the proposal slightly below those of the two awardees in the area of technical merit. We sustain the protest. 'The forest inventory plots anticipated here are widely-spaced, systematically located, large, fixed-size plots, permanently marked to permit the long-term observations necessary to monitor trends and changes in forest health and growth.

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