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B-299433 1 (2007-05-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaues0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Weidlinger Associates, Inc. File: B-299433; B-299433.2 Date: May 7, 2007 Daniel B. Abrahams, Esq., Howard A. Wolf-Rodda, Esq., and Pamela A. Reynolds, Esq., Epstein Becker & Green PC, for the protester. Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Philip M. Dearborn, Esq., and Isaias Alba, IV, Esq., Piliero Mazza, PLLC, for Merrick & Company, an intervenor. Blane B. Lewis, Esq., Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency properly evaluated awardee's technical/management approach as exceptional, and protester's as acceptable, where awardee's proposed approach offered evaluated strengths that exceeded the solicitation requirements and protester's proposed approach met, but did not exceed, the requirements. 2. Agency properly considered all of the past performance information submitted by protester, including information submitted prior to solicitation amendment that revised and provided additional detail regarding past performance evaluation criteria. 3. Agency properly concluded that protester's proposal did not offer the lowest evaluated cost/price where solicitation provided that the proposed costs for two sample tasks would constitute the evaluated cost/price, and protester's proposal for the sample tasks offered higher costs than the awardee's proposal. DECISION Weidlinger Associates, Inc. (WAI) protests the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) award of a contract to Merrick & Company for engineering services pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. HDTRA2-06-R-0001. WAI protests that the agency erred in evaluating various aspects of WAI's proposal. We deny the protest.

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