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B-405941 1 (2012-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadomp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Defense Product Solutions File: B-405941 Date: January 10, 2012 Theodore P. Watson, Esq., and Idris S. Keith, Esq., Watson & Associates, LLC, for the protester. Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., Cameron S. Hamrick, Esq., Polly Myers, Esq., and Kristina M. Portner, Esq., Mayer Brown LLP, for Polaris Sales, Inc., an intervenor. Travis P. Sommer, Esq., and Francis 0. Wey, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably determined that awardee offered a superior delivery schedule is denied where agency reasonably evaluated protester's schedule as offering only the required schedule and awardee's as offering an accelerated schedule. DECISION Defense Product Solutions (DPS), of Century City, California, protests the Department of the Army's award of a contract to Polaris Sales, Inc., of Medina, Minnesota, under solicitation No. W56HZV-1 1 -R-G21 0, for all terrain vehicles (ATVs), trailers, and spare parts. DPS asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal under the delivery and small business participation factors. We deny the protest. The solicitation provided for a two-step evaluation process. First, the agency evaluated technical proposals on a pass/fail basis. Those proposals that were evaluated as acceptable were then considered for award on a best value basis considering the following evaluation factors: delivery, small business subcontracting (with subfactors for small business and small disadvantaged business), and price. Following the evaluation of initial proposals and discussions the agency requested final proposal revisions (FPR). DPS's revised proposal, with an evaluated price of $53,411,384, was evaluated as meeting the solicitation delivery schedule, marginal

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