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B-292322,B-292322.2,B-292322.3 1 (2003-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacykr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I 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: Preferred Systems Solutions, Inc. File: B-292322; B-292322.2; B-292322.3 Date: August 25, 2003 William L. Walsh, Jr., Esq., J. Scott Hommer III, Esq., and Benjamin A. Winter, Esq., Venable, Baetjer & Howard, for the protester. J. Michael Slocum, Esq., Slocum & Boddie, for Aaron B. Floyd Enterprises, Inc., an intervenor. Patricia A. Papas, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Under procurement that gave technical factors more importance than cost, source selection decision selecting the low-priced, technically-inferior proposal as the best value, instead of the protester's higher-priced, higher-rated proposal, was not reasonably based, where the agency did not reasonably explain why the benefits associated with the evaluated technical superiority of the protester's proposal were not worth the price premium and where the source selection authority was not aware of the actual differences in costs that would be incurred under the competing proposals. 2. Protest that agency misevaluated proposals under a subfactor which contemplated a qualitative evaluation is sustained where the proposals received the same ratings, even though the supporting narrative indicated that there should be differences in the ratings. DECISION Preferred Systems Solutions, Inc. (PSS) protests the award of a contract to Aaron B. Floyd Enterprises, Inc. (ABF) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DCA100-03-R- 4019, a small business set-aside issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for technical support services. We sustain the protest.

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