B-189704: Mar 29, 1978

PROTEST BY APPARENT LOW BIDDER AGAINST REASONABLENESS OF GOVERNMENT HIRED LABOR ESTIMATE IS DENIED WHERE PROTESTER FAILED TO MEET BURDEN OF AFFIRMATIVELY PROVING GOVERNMENT'S DATA. FACT THAT ALL BIDS SUBMITTED WERE HIGHER THAN GOVERNMENT ESTIMATE IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO SHOW ESTIMATE UNREASONABLE. 2. WHERE GOVERNMENT ESTIMATE WAS REVIEWED FOR REASONABLENESS AND REVISED IN RESPONSE TO APPARENT LOW BID...

B-189704: Aug 7, 1978

DIGEST: PRIOR DECISION DENYING PROTEST THAT GOVERNMENT'S ESTIMATE OF COST OF PERFORMING WORK WITH GOVERNMENT DREDGE WAS UNREASONABLE IS AFFIRMED UPON RECONSIDERATION AS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY PROCURING ACTIVITY IN RESPONSE TO PROTESTER'S ARGUMENT RE COMPUTATION OF ESTIMATE AFFIRMS PRIOR FINDING OF REASONABLE BASIS FOR ESTIMATE. THE IFB WAS FOR MAINTENANCE DREDGING AT LITTLE LAKE HARBO...

B-189704: Mar 29, 1978

A company, protesting the rejection of its bid on the basis of comparative costs with hired labor, argued that the Government's hired labor estimates were unreasonably low. The protester did not affirmatively prove that the Government's estimate was unreasonable, and the agency acted in accordance with statutes in rejecting the low bid which was more than 25 percent in excess of the revised estima...

B-189704: Aug 7, 1978

A low bidder requested rejection of all bids because of high labor-cost estimates. Additional information submitted by the agency regarding the computation of estimates affirmed the prior finding that cost estimates were not reasonable...