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B-291803 1 (2003-03-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyfz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General - -Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Science & Management Resources, Inc. File: B-291803 Date: March 17, 2003 Larry McKee for the protester. Michael L. Sterling, Esq., Vandeventer Black, for The Bionetics Corporation, an intervenor. John C. Gatlin, Esq., and Milton D. Watkins, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated awardee's past performance and price is denied where record shows that challenge to past performance evaluation is based on misunderstanding of the facts, and that price evaluation was legally adequate in context of a fixed-price contract. DECISION Science & Management Resources, Inc. (SMR) protests the award of a contract to The Bionetics Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. F34650-02-R-0035, issued by the Department of the Air Force for precision measurement equipment laboratory (PMEL) services at Tinker Air Force Base. SMR maintains that the agency misevaluated Bionetics's proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP sought fixed-price offers for a base year, with four 1-year options. Award was to be made to the firm submitting the proposal deemed to offer the best overall value to the government. Proposals first would be evaluated for technical acceptability and, among the technically acceptable proposals, the agency would make a best value selection based on an integrated assessment of past performance (rated as exceptional/high confidence, very good/significant confidence, satisfactory/confidence, marginal/confidence, unsatisfactory/no

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