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B-292602,B-292602.2 1 (2003-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacynj0001 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: ManTech Environmental Research Services Corporation File: B-292602; B-292602.2 Date: October 21, 2003 Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., John E. Jensen, Esq., and Jennifer M. De Jesus, Esq., Shaw Pittman, for the protester. Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., L. James D'Agostino, Esq., and Natalia W. Geren, Esq., Reed Smith, for Shaw Environmental, Inc., an intervenor. Thomas J. Doherty, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where agency performed cost/technical tradeoff, selecting awardee's higher- priced proposal on the basis of perceived technical superiority, as reflected in point scores, protest challenging that cost/technical tradeoff is sustained where agency's contemporaneous evaluation record reflects evaluation errors which the agency acknowledges might have resulted in improperly doubling the awardee's perceived technical point margin. 2. Where evaluation record supporting cost/technical trade-off is materially flawed, and perceived technical superiority of awardee's higher-priced proposal, as reflected by technical point scores, is dramatically reduced by correction of procurement flaws, agency's post-protest confirmation of its prior cost/technical tradeoff, conducted in the heat of an adversarial process, does not provide credible support for the agency's assertion that protester was not prejudiced by the evaluation flaws. DECISION ManTech Environmental Research Services Corporation protests the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) award of a contract to Shaw Environmental, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. PR-CI-02-1291/0111 to provide on-site technical

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