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G A 0 Comptroller 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 is an interim redacted
version that has been approved for public release;
GAO intends to issue a final redacted version at a later
DecSiOn Idate.
Matter of: Bechtel Hanford, Inc.
File: B-292288; B-292288.2; B-292288.3
Date: August 13, 2003
Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., David F. Dowd, Esq., and Michael J. Farley, Esq., Mayer,
Brown Rowe & Maw, and Robert Humphries, Esq., Bechtel Hanford, Inc., for the
protester.
Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Shlomo D. Katz, Esq., and Tammy Hopkins, Esq.,
Epstein Becker & Green, for Washington Closure Company, LLC, an intervenor.
Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., Joseph B. Schroeder, Esq., Patricia D. Grahm, Esq., and
Jonathan M. Dreger, Esq., Department of Energy, 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 improperly made award in a cost-plus-incentive-fee acquisition
to a firm that submitted a proposal whose cost was found to be [deleted] unrealistic
by the agency is sustained where solicitation called for evaluation of realism of cost
proposals, agency emphasized need for realism during written and oral discussions,
agency never indicated to offerors during the competition that it would accord little
weight to realism in its source selection, protester relied on agency's direction in
submitting a proposal that was found very realistic, and agency failed to adequately
document in its selection decision why it discounted the importance of realism in its
source selection.
DECISION
Bechtel Hanford, Inc. (BHI) protests the award of a contract to Washington Closure
Company, LLC (WCC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RPO6-02RL14300,
issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) to acquire environmental remediation
services. BHI maintains that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an
improper source selection decision.
We sustain the protest.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobacymf0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)