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B-281287.12 1 (2000-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakxo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountablity* Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Citywide Managing Services of Port Washington, Inc. File: B-281287.12; B-281287.13 Date: November 15, 2000 John A. Ordway, Esq., Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, and Jacqueline B. Gayner, Esq., Ross, Suchoff, Hankin, Maidenbaum, Handwerker & Mazel, for the protester. Michael A. Gordon, Esq., and Fran Baskin, Esq., Holmes, Schwartz & Gordon, for Meridian Management Corporation, the intervenor. Joseph J. Cox, Esq., and Michael Ryba, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency satisfied its obligations to perform a price analysis by comparing the widely variant line item prices proposed by the offerors under vigorous price competition for a fixed-priced contract and the government estimate; the agency was not required to downgrade awardee's highest-rated technical proposal because of its low price where the awardee verified its price and the agency reasonably determined that the awardee understood and could perform the contract at that price. 2. Protest alleging that the awardee's proposal has unbalanced item prices and that the agency failed to assess whether the unbalancing posed an unacceptable risk to the government is denied, where, despite the agency's erroneous determination that prices were not unbalanced, there is no evidence of significant risk to the government arising from unbalanced prices and the agency's action therefore did not prejudice the protester. 3. Protest of technical evaluation is denied where protest merely disagrees with the agency's evaluation and does not provide evidence of an unreasonable evaluation.

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