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B-280974 1 (1998-12-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahxl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Red John's Stone, Inc. File: B-280974 Date: December 14, 1998 D. Lee Roberts, Jr., Esq., Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler, for the protester. Julia L. Perry, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of this decision. DIGEST Bid on road repair project on the Blue Ridge Parkway is nonresponsive, where it offers a contract performance schedule under which the contract would be completed before turf establishment (a material requirement of invitation for bids (IFB)) could be performed in compliance with the growing season specified in the IFB. DECISION Red John's Stone, Inc. protests the rejection of its bid under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DTFH71-98-B-00019, issued by the Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, for roadway reconstruction and other related work on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Alleghany and Ashe counties, North Carolina. We deny the protest. The IFB, issued on June 26, 1998, contemplated the award of a fixed-price construction contract. The IFB stated that award would be based on lowest total cost to the government, which would be the sum of the bid price plus the contract administrative cost associated with the length of the performance period stated in the bid. IFB at B-1. The IFB stated an administrative cost of $500 per day. Id. The bid schedule included a summary page on which each bidder had to state the number of calendar days it would take to complete all project work from a construction start date of November 16. IFB at B-8. The IFB required that bidders offer a performance period not to exceed 180 calendar days for completion of all contract work. IFB at A-4, B-1. The bid schedule included 42 line items covering all of the work required under the contract and stated the estimated quantities of such work where other than lump- sum prices were required. The line items included hot asphalt concrete pavement,

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