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B-291567 1 (2002-12-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoji0001 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: AST Environmental, Inc. File: B-291567 Date: December 31, 2002 Richard A. Ciambrone, Esq., Thompson Hine, for the protester. Mark R. Weidner for Water Quality Systems, Inc., the intervenor. John D. Inazu, Esq., and Carol A. Satterfield, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Peter Verchinski and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to perform an adequate price realism analysis is denied where agency's price analysis was reasonable and legally sufficient. DECISION AST Environmental, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Water Quality Systems, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) F33601-02-R-9035, issued by the Department of the Air Force for all labor, material, and equipment necessary to clean and monitor oil separators and settling basins at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Contending that Air Force's price realism analysis was inadequate, AST asserts that Water Quality's proposal should have been rejected because its proposed price was unrealistically low. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award of a requirements contract for a base period and 4 option years. Proposals were to be evaluated for technical acceptability, and then, among technically acceptable proposals, award was to be made on a best value basis, with a tradeoff permitted between past performance and evaluated price. The RFP stated that the agency would evaluate the proposed prices for realism and reasonableness, and that the agency might reject proposals where the prices were unreasonably high or so low as to indicate a lack of understanding of the work to be performed.