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B-291179 1 (2002-11-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoih0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Semont Travel, Inc. File: B-291179 Date: November 20, 2002 Dona Davison for the protester. Mark Pestronk, Esq., for Rodgers Travel, Inc./American Express, an intervenor. Andrew D. Fallon, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Award based on quotation that the agency considered unbalanced is unobjectionable where the agency considered the risk of unreasonably high prices for contract performance and reasonably determined that the unbalanced pricing did not pose an unacceptable level of risk to the government. DECISION Semont Travel, Inc. protests the issuance of a purchase order to Rodgers Travel, Inc./ American Express under request for quotations (RFQ) No. F05604-02-T-0025, issued by the Department of the Air Force for commercial travel management services at various Air Force installations within Colorado. Semont maintains that the Air Force failed to reasonably evaluate the risks to the government associated with Rodgers' unbalanced pricing in making its award decision. We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued on April 2, 2002, contemplated the issuance of a requirements-type order for a base year, with four 6-month options, to provide travel services for official travel at Peterson Air Force Base (AFB), Schriever AFB, Buckley AFB, and the Air Force Academy. The RFQ established three evaluation factors--technical acceptability, past performance, and price--and notified vendors that the past performance of technically acceptable vendors was approximately equal in importance to price. The solicitation established that award would be made to the responsible vendor whose quotation was most advantageous to the government, and that the agency would utilize a price performance trade-off technique, whereby the

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