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B-292403,B-292403.2 1 (2003-09-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General . . Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Accurate Automation Corporation File: B-292403; B-292403.2 Date: September 10, 2003 Tenley A. Carp, Esq., and Karen Yankosky, Esq., McGuireWoods, for the protester. Mark D. Colley, Esq., Christopher R. Yukins, Esq., Caitlin K. Cloonan, Esq., and Stuart Turner, Esq., Holland & Knight, for Raytheon Company, an intervenor. Barry L. Williams, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Under unrestricted solicitation that called for full and open competition with no provision for award under small business innovation research (SBIR) program or for any other small business preference, there was no basis for agency to afford special assistance or differential treatment to small business offeror, notwithstanding offeror's erroneous assertion in its proposal that it could be awarded an SBIR contract for the requirement. 2. Agency reasonably evaluated protester's past performance as neutral under subcontractor management subfactor where protester lacked relevant subcontractor management experience; the proposed large business subcontractor's past performance record in managing subcontractors cannot reasonably be credited to small business protester as the prime contractor, notwithstanding alleged mentor/prot6g6 agreement between the two, since the evaluation subfactor is intended to assess the prime contractor's ability to supervise and control that mentor's performance as a major subcontractor. 3. Agency reasonably determined that the significantly reduced technical and past performance risk offered by technically superior proposal warranted the payment of the associated evaluated cost premium under a solicitation for a cost reimbursement contract for a complex system development program which provided that the technical factors were significantly more important than cost. 4. Award determination, as well as underlying cost/technical tradeoff vis-a-vis protester, is unobjectionable even though focused on comparison between

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