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B-291506,B-291506.2,B-291506.3,B-291506.4 1 (2003-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyeu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im G A 0Comptroller General . ....... Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting 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: Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Inc.; Raytheon Technical Services Company File: B-291506; B-291506.2; B-291506.3; B-291506.4 Date: January 14, 2003 John W. Chierichella, Esq., Richard A. Sauber, Esq., James J. McCullough, Esq., Anne B. Perry, Esq., Jonathan S. Aronie, Esq., Suzette E. Gordon, Esq., Franklin M. Rubinstein, Esq., Timothy K. Halloran, Esq., and Brittney R. Nystrom, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Inc.; and Mark D. Colley, Esq., David P. Metzger, Esq., Paul E. Pompeo, Esq., David S. Black, Esq., Michele M. Brown, Esq., Caitlin K. Cloonan, Esq., and Stuart Turner, Esq., Holland & Knight, for Raytheon Technical Services Company, the protesters. Thomas L. McGovern, III, Esq., Michael F. Mason, Esq., Joy E. Sturm, Esq., Gary J. Campbell, Esq., and Maureen K. James, Esq., Hogan & Hartson, for Kwajalein Range Services, LLC, the intervenor. Raymond M. Saunders, Esq., Lt. Col. Daniel K. Poling, Maj. Leslie A. Nepper, Maj. Kateni T. Leakehe, Maj. Robert B. Neill, Capt. Timothy J. Ryan, and Capt. Peter G. Hartman, Department of the Army, for the agency. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. In a negotiated procurement contemplating award based upon a cost/technical tradeoff, protest that the agency abandoned the point-scoring feature of an evaluation tool identified in the solicitation is denied, where the point scoring feature was not required by the award evaluation scheme announced in the solicitation and the agency's use of an adjectival evaluation comported with the solicitation's best value scheme. 2. Protest asserting that protester's proposal was unreasonably downgraded for low proposed staffing level is denied where the agency reasonably determined, consistent with the solicitation, that the proposed staffing level, although acceptable, was low and posed performance risks. 3. Protest objecting to agency's cost evaluation and assessment of weaknesses and risk in protester's technical proposal relating to the protester's proposed personnel

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