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B-278168 1 (1998-01-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahne0001 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: Joint Threat Services File: B-278168; B-278168.2 Date: January 5, 1998 Stuart Young, Esq., DynCorp, for the protester. William L. Walsh, Jr., Esq., J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., and Wm. Craig Dubishar, Esq., Venable, Baetjer and Howard, LLP, for Research Analysis and Maintenance, Inc., an intervenor. Craig E. Hodge, Esq., and Phillip A. Weaver, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Christine F. Davis, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably downgraded the protester's management proposal and made an upward adjustment in determining the proposal's most probable cost, where the proposal did not demonstrate the protester's ability to perform the agency's requirements based upon a significantly reduced staff during the contract option years, during which the agency does not anticipate any significant reduction in its requirements. 2. Agency was not required to discuss the protester's proposal to augment its staff with personnel from another contract, where the agency reasonably did not view this weakness as material until the protester proposed a significant staffing reduction in its best and final offer and increased its reliance upon this other contract's personnel to supplement its staff. 3. The excellent rating accorded to the awardee's best and final offer did not improperly reflect the application of an unstated evaluation factor and was reasonably based upon numerous, unc o ntested pro po sal strengths, notwithstanding that the awardee's staffing levels were lower than the government estimate. 4. Agency properly allowed the awardee to correct a clerical error in a cost proposal spreadsheet after the submission of best and final offers through clarifications, rather than discussions, where the existence of the mistake, and the amount actually intended, were clear from the face of the proposal, and the correction did not prejudice the interests of another offeror.

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