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B-299533 1 (2007-05-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauff0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Battelle Memorial Institute File: B-299533 Date: May 14, 2007 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., and David J. Ginsberg, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. Scott C. Briles, Esq., and Elise Harris, Esq., Department of Health & Human Services, for the agency. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Guy. R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's decision to exclude protester's proposal from competition for failing to include option year pricing was reasonable, where the solication required that proposals contain this pricing and provided for award without discussions; agency was not required to allow protester to correct mistake because, although the omission was evident on the face of the proposal, the protester's intended pricing for the option years was not apparent. DECISION Battelle Memorial Institute protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competition under request for proposal (RFP) No. 2006-N-08556, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for comprehensive technical, scientific, research, and public health support for the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. Battelle contends that the agency improperly rejected its proposal for omitting option year pricing and that the agency should have, instead, allowed the firm to correct the omission. We deny the protest. The RFP provided for either a single award or multiple awards of fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts with cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders. RFP at 67-68. Each ID/IQ contract award was to be for a 12-month base period with nine 1-year options, and the maximum value for each awarded contract was stated to be $92 million. Id. at 2-3.

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