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B-292178,B-292178.2,B-292178.3 1 (2003-07-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylq0001 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 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: Cortez, Inc. File: B-292178; B-292178.2; B-292178.3 Date: July 17, 2003 Kenneth M. Bruntel, Esq., Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Amy E. Laderberg, Esq., and Michael Abelow, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for the protester. Mark D. Colley, Esq., David S. Black, Esq., Stuart W. Turner, Esq., Caitlin K. Cloonan, Esq., and Michele M. Brown, Esq., Holland & Knight, for EG&G Technical Services, Inc., an intervenor. Sumara M. Thompson-King, Esq., and Jerry L. Seemann, Esq., National Aeronautics & Space Administration, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging conduct of price realism evaluation and agency determination that awardee's pricing was realistic is denied where protester does not show that awardee's pricing was likely to result in significant performance risk and agency reasonably found that nothing in awardee's pricing called into question its understanding of the performance requirements set forth in the solicitation. 2. Protest that agency unreasonably found awardee's past performance/experience superior to the protester's (the incumbent contractor), is denied where, although both firms were reported to have strong performance on a number of contracts, and protester was given evaluation credit for experience on the incumbent contract, agency determined, and protester conceded during discussions, that protester had encountered problems in performing the incumbent contract. DECISION Cortez, Inc. protests the National Aeronautics & Space Administration's (NASA) issuance of an order to EG&G Technical Services, Inc., under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 8-1-1-A4-00155, for logistics services at NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama. The order was issued to EG&G under the General Services Administration's LOGWORLD Federal Supply Schedule. Cortez challenges numerous aspects of the technical and price evaluation.

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