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Well $175 does sound high for just painting a front bumper, espesialy if it is already primed. Although it depend on the bumper and whats on it, if its a factory style bumper with just the protective E-coat on it then the body shop will have to remove that then prep the plastic, prime it, block it, paint and clear coat it.
Also if they are going to blend into the hood and fenders (which if they take their time, mix the paint right, and do a spray out card to check the color and tweek it to get it as close as possible that might not be nessacary) then that will cost a dicent amount of money just because they have to scuff the entire hood and both fenders, blend the paint out into both to make color change unnoticable, then clear coat the entier hood and both fenders.
My advice is shop around a little and if you can find a shop who you are confident enough that they will be able to match the color of your car, then you could probably get away with not blending, even though blending will make the job look dang near perfect match.
If you decide to go with just painting the bumper and not blending try to go to a body shop which has their one paint mixing system and banks that way they will be able to work with the paint to make it match instead of haveing to go somewere else to have it mixed.
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