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B-294784 1 (2004-12-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptappn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Building Construction Enterprises, Inc. File: B-294784 Date: December 20, 2004 Kendall Schoonover for the protester. Denis L. Durkin, Esq., and Edgar Stanton, Esq., Baker & Hostetler, for David Boland, Inc., the intervenor. Capt. Joseph V. Fratarcangeli, and Roger Christopher Paden, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly awarded contract based on evaluation of base and optional items, where invitation for bids informed bidders that option items would be evaluated and there was not reasonable certainty that the funds would be unavailable to permit the exercise of the options. DECISION Building Construction Enterprises, Inc (BCE) protests the award of a contract to David Boland, Inc. by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under invitations for bids (IFB) No. W912DQ-04-B-0011 for the construction of the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility at Fort Riley, Kansas. BCE contends that the Corps should not have evaluated bidders' option prices. We deny the protest. The IFB sought bids for the construction of a combined arms collective training facility, an urban assault course, an offensive defensive building, live fire shoot house, a breach facility, and airfield buildings. The IFB included five option items, including Option 2 for bituminous paving for a landing zone and concrete runaround and Option 3 for concrete paving of the same landing zone and concrete runarounds. Bidders were informed that Options 2 and 3 were mutually exclusive and that only one of these two options would be exercised. IFB amend. 1, at 4. The IFB also

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