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B-280521.3 1 (1998-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahvz0001 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: RMS Information Systems, Inc. File: B-280521.3 Date: October 21, 1998 Philip M. Dearborn, Esq., Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., and Andrew P. Hallowell, Esq., Piliero, Mazza & Pargament, for the protester. David R. Johnson, Esq., Kathleen C. Little, Esq., and Robert J. Rothwell, Esq., McDermott, Will & Emery, for Johnson Controls World Services, Inc., an intervenor. John E. Lariccia, Esq., Martin F. McAlwee, Esq., and Marian E. Sullivan, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee's proposal was unbalanced is denied where there is no evidence of mathematical unbalancing and, in any event, there is no question that the awardee's proposal will result in the lowest ultimate cost to the government because the solicitation price evaluation formula was structured to assign more weight to the most requested items to minimize the likelihood of offerors being able to gain any advantage through unbalanced pricing. 2. Protest that the agency failed to perform an adequate price realism analysis is denied where the price analysis was reasonably based on audit reports; comparison to commercial prices, other offerors' proposals and government estimates; and an assessment of the completeness and feasibility of the offeror's technical solutions. 3. Protest challenging the evaluation of technical proposals is denied where evaluation record shows that evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation evaluation criteria. 4. Protest that source selection decision was improperly based on a $9 million mistake in protester's evaluated price is denied where agency awarded to offeror with technically equal, but significantly lower priced proposal, and protester's actual evaluated price remains significantly higher than the awardee's after correction of the mistake.

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