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B-271509 1 (1996-07-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeet0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Techniarts Engineering File: B-271509 Date: July 1, 1996 William E. Moore for the protester. John W. Fowler, Jr., Esq., Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley, for Peirce-Phelps, Inc., an intervenor. Kathryn E. Simmons, Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, Participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Contracting agency reasonably eliminated protester's technically acceptable proposal from the competitive range where the protester's experience properly was evaluated as relatively weak and the agency had received several superior proposals at lower prices, as a result of which the protester's proposal had no reasonable chance of being selected for award. 2. Agency was not required to conduct discussions with the protester concerning its corporate experience where the protester's experience was evaluated as acceptable, but not as strong as that of several other offerors, the information in question was explicitly required by the solicitation, and the agency had no reason to believe the protester had not provided all of the relevant specific past performance information which was requested. DECISION Techniarts Engineering protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposal (RFP) No. TASA12-95-R-0025, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency, Television-Audio Support Activity (T-ASA) for Shipboard Audio Entertainment Systems (SAES). We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on July 20, 1995, contemplated the award of a fixed-price requirements contract for a base period with four 1-year options. The RFP stated that award would be made to a single offeror who submitted the best overall proposal considering the stated evaluation factors. The RFP contained two 54371

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