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B-276837.3 1 (1998-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahlv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Omega World Travel, Inc. File: B-276837.3 Date: June 9, 1998 Barry Roberts, Esq., and Brian J. Hundertmark, Esq., Roberts & Hundertmark, for the protester. Janet L. Harney, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that in evaluating proposals procuring agency unreasonably inflated score of awardee's proposal is denied where protester does not explain why it believes scoring was improper, and nothing on face of evaluation appears unreasonable. 2. In performing tradeoff between technical quality and level of rebates, agency properly credited awardee's proposal for transportation rebate on both technical and rebate sides, since solicitation provided for evaluation of discounted or free ground transportation under technical evaluation, and rebate was unconditional and its value quantifiable. DECISION Omega World Travel, Inc. protests the award of a contract to American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 3FBG-W- CM-N-5222, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for travel management center services for the Department of State, United States Information Agency, and United States Agency for International Development. Omega asserts that GSA misevaluated proposals and did not perform an adequate tradeoff between technical quality and the level of rebates.1 1Omega raised other issues in its protest relating to discussions and the mandatory rebate. The agency responded to these arguments in its report, and the protester simply stated in its comments on the report that Omega hereby incorporates the arguments raised in its previous submissions ... . Since Omega has not substantively rebutted the agency's position on these issues, we view them as (continued...)

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