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B-290802.2 1 (2003-02-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyfd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: il 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: Vantage Associates, Inc. File: B-290802.2 Date: February 3, 2003 Brian J. Donovan, Esq., Jones & Donovan, for the protester. Randall B. Pennington, Esq., Naval Sea Systems Command, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency determination to make award on the basis of lower price under solicitation which provided that technical considerations were more important than price is unobjectionable where the technical proposals were reasonably evaluated as essentially equal. 2. Favorable consideration of offeror's past performance and technical capability in producing item identical to that being procured with the exception of a change in the color of a required coating is reasonable under solicitation which contemplated evaluation of offeror's previous production of the same or similar item. DECISION Vantage Associates, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Raytheon Systems Company under request for proposals (RFP) No. N63394-02-R-4001, issued by the Department of the Navy, Port Hueneme Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, for the production of certain radomes under a fixed-price contract. Vantage asserts that it has better experience and qualifications to produce the radomes than Raytheon, and that the Navy unreasonably evaluated Raytheon's technical proposal as equal to Vantage's and improperly determined to award to Raytheon on the basis of its lower price. We deny the protest.

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