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B-271673 1 (1996-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaefm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: KPMG Peat Marwick, L.L.P. File: B-271673 Date: July 15, 1996 William A. Roberts III, Esq., Lee Curtis, Esq., Jerone C. Cecelic, Esq., and Gayle Girod, Esq., Howrey & Simon, for the protester. Ronald A. Schechter, Esq., and Rosemary Maxwell, Esq., Arnold & Porter, for Hay Management Consultants, an intervenor. Michael P. Chiffolo, Esq., Defense Commissary Agency, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency failed to give adequate weight to performance risk in its source selection decision is denied where record shows that agency evaluated and considered performance risk in accordance with the requirements of the solicitation. 2. Protest that agency failed to consider cost in tradeoff decision is denied where the record shows that the source selection official was aware of the cost differences among the competing offerors and reasonably chose to select for award the higher priced, technically superior proposals. DECISION KPMG Peat Marwick protests the award of two contracts under request for proposals (RFP) No. DECAO1-95-R-0036, issued by the Defense Commissary Agency (DCA) for advisory and assistance services. KPMG contends that the agency failed to give adequate consideration to past performance and cost in its award decision. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award of multiple indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity fixed-price-per-labor-hour contracts on a best value basis. For evaluation purposes, the RFP provided that offers would be reviewed under three broad criteria, Technical Merit, Management, and Cost; the Technical Merit and Management areas (which each included numerous subfactors) were of equal weight. Cost, described 1001726

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