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B-274627 1 (1996-12-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaemo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Morganti National, Inc. File: B-274627; B-274627.2 Date: December 20, 1996 J. Randolph MacPherson, Esq., Sullivan & Worcester LLP, for the protester. Robert S. Brains, Esq., Patton Boggs, L.L.P., for Sayed Hamid Behbehani and Sons, Co. W.L.L., an intervenor. Paul W. Manning, Esq., United States Information Agency, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST An agency may reasonably accept an offeror's certification and worksheets as demonstrating compliance with the solicitation's mandatory domestic content requirements in the absence of information suggesting that the offeror otherwise does not intend to comply with those requirements. DECISION Morganti National, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Sayed Hamid Behbehani and Sons, Co. W.L.L. (SHB) under request for proposals (RFP) No. IA2101-$5234574- EP, issued by the United States Information Agency for the design, fabrication, and construction of a Voice of America (VOA) shortwave relay broadcasting station on the Island of Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Morganti basically contends that SHB was ineligible for award because it failed to demonstrate compliance with the RFP's mandatory domestic content requirements. We deny the protests. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract to the offeror whose proposal was most advantageous to the government, price being considered more important than the technical evaluation factors. The Tinian station, which will broadcast VOA radio programs to mainland China, was the last VOA relay station modernization project. Like the other projects, this procurement was subject to domestic content requirements, as described in the Foreign Relations Authorization 10111220

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