B-228339.2: Feb 10, 1988

A firm protested the Department of Energy's (DOE) cancellation of a solicitation for a security system, contending that DOE: (1) failed to include certain engineering costs in its estimate; and (2) improperly determined that the protester's price was unreasonably high. GAO held that: (1) DOE properly cancelled the solicitation, since the protester's bid, which was the only bid it received, was 33...

B-228339.2: Feb 10, 1988

DIGEST: Contracting officer's decision to cancel solicitation based on price unreasonableness was proper where only bid received exceeded government estimate by more than 33 percent and protester has not established that government estimate was incomplete or inaccurate. The solicitation was issued as a total small business set-aside. The government estimate for the work in question was $6. 000 was...