Matter of Mancon, LLC Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied Decided: May 12, 2020 Keywords: Unbalanced Pricing, Price Realism General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Protest alleging that awardee’s pricing is unbalanced is dismissed where the protester fails to make the threshold showing that one or more of the awardee’s prices was overstated and where
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Triumvirate Environmental, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained. _________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is sustained where agency unreasonably evaluated the protester’s pricing as unbalanced and conducted a technical-price tradeoff without meaningfully considering the lower prices set forth in the protester’s quotation. General Counsel PC Highlight: Triumvirate Environmental, Inc. protested
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Army Corps of Engineers Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Unbalanced bidding General Counsel P.C. Highlight: In a bid that includes separate line items, each line item must be reasonably and fairly priced and cannot be overstated or understated in a way that gives the contractor excessive advanced payments, even where the overall
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency should have rejected awardee’s proposal for offering unbalanced prices is denied where awardee’s price was low overall and agency considered risk of high and low line item prices for contract performance and reasonably determined that awardee’s pricing