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B-270744 1 (1996-04-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeau0001 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. File: B-270744 Date: April 17, 1996 Michael J. Radford, Esq., for the protester. Steven P. McDonald, Esq., Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, for Pack and Crate Services, Inc., the intervenor. Jeffrey A. Mansfield, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Behn Miller, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Allegation that awardee's offer is materially unbalanced and violates solicitation's Integrity of Unit Prices clause is denied where there is no basis in record to conclude that awardee's price is mathematically unbalanced. DECISION Allstate Van and Storage, Inc. protests 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. Allstate contends that P&C's offer is both mathematically and materially unbalanced. We deny the protest. The RFP was issued to 11 offerors on September 5, 1995, and contemplated the award of a firm fixed price, indefinite delivery requirements contract to the lowest priced offeror for the 1996 calendar year. For their proposals, offerors were required to complete and submit the solicitation's pricing schedule which solicited unit prices on a per net hundred weight basis (NCWT) for 13 types of outbound moving and storage services--identified in the pricing schedule with 13 contract line item numbers (CLIN). By the October 31, 1995 closing date, proposals were received from Allstate, P&C, and a third offeror. In early December, 1995, the Navy awarded the contract to P&C as the lowest-priced offeror. On December 14, Allstate, the second low offeror, filed this protest at our Office. 114249