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B-270744.2 1 (1996-08-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeat0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Allstate Van and Storage, Inc.--Reconsideration File: B-270744.2 Date: August 20, 1996 Michael J. Radford, Esq., for the protester. Behn Miller, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for reconsideration is denied where the request is based on information that was available to, but not proffered by, the protester during consideration of the initial protest, and on mere disagreement with prior decision. DECISION Allstate Van and Storage, Inc. requests reconsideration of our decision, Allstate Van and Storage, Inc., B-270744, Apr. 17, 1996, 96-1 CPD 191, denying its protest of the award of a contract to Pack & Crate Services, Inc. (P&C) under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00244-96-D-5009, issued by the Department of the Navy for residential packing and moving services for military families located in the San Diego, California area. We deny the request for reconsideration. In its initial protest, Allstate challenged the award to P&C on the ground that the awardee's offer was both mathematically and materially unbalanced. Allstate argued that the awardee had understated its proposed prices for contract line item number (CLIN) 0001, Complete Outbound services, and offered inflated prices for CLIN 0003, Overflow Outbound services. In this regard, CLIN 0001 required the contractor to survey and pack a service member's household furnishings and belongings into government-provided 196 cubic foot standard shipping containers and ship the goods to the appropriate outbound destination. Under CLIN 0003, any items that would not fit into the CLIN 0001 standard containers--either because they were too large (e.g., motorcycles or oversize sofas), too fragile (2.g., antiques), or undersized (e.g., overflow articles), were to be transported by the contractor to the contractor's local facility for special packing in a contractor-provided box and then reunited with the remaining CLIN No. 0001 containers for shipment to the appropriate outbound destination. 1244820