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B-281241.2 1 (1999-01-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajfr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Ritchie Sawyer Corporation File: B-281241.2 Date: January 25, 1999 Thomas J. Ritchie for the protester. Calvin D. Trowbridge III, Esq., U.S. Trade and Development Agency, for the agency. Robert C. Arsenoff, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against agency technical evaluation is denied where protester merely disagrees with the agency evaluators' conclusions, the reasonableness of which are supported by the record. DECISION Ritchie Sawyer Corporation (RSC) protests the award of a contract to Ghenene & Associates under request for proposals (RFP) No. TDA-98-Q-064, issued as a total small business set-aside by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA) for a program audit of a central African grant which had been awarded in 1995 to perform a feasibility study to develop a cellular/telecommunications switching system, and of a subsequent follow-up contract to a U.S. company. The protester primarily alleges that the agency failed to properly consider the protester's low price in making the award determination and otherwise misevaluated the protester's technical proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on August 6, 1998, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a program audit to be completed by January 30, 1999. Award was to be made to the offeror whose technically acceptable proposal offered the technical/price relationship that was determined to be most advantageous to the government. RFP § M.2, at 29. The solicitation further provided that price was secondary to technical and that award would not necessarily be made to the lowest-priced offeror. Id. Offerors were cautioned that they should submit initial proposals on their most favorable terms as award might be made without discussions. Id.

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