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B-292789.2,B-292789.3,B-292789.4,B-292789.5,B-292789.6,B-292789. 1 (2003-12-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyui0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General . . Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc.; Highland Engineering, Inc.; Etnyre International, Ltd.; Kara Aerospace, Inc. File: B-292789.2; B-292789.3; B-292789.4; B-292789.5; B-292789.6; B-292789.7 Date: December 15, 2003 Carl L. Vacketta, Esq., Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., and Robert S. Nichols, Esq., Piper Rudnick, for Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc.; Michael W. Clancy, Esq., and George W. Ash, Esq., Dykema Gossett, for Highland Engineering, Inc.; David T. Ralston, Esq., Philip A. Nacke, Esq., and Heather M. Trew, Esq., Foley & Lardner, for Etnyre International, Ltd.; Mark Righter, Esq., McQuaide Blasko, and Joseph J. Dyer, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw, for Kara Aerospace, Inc., the protesters. Kenneth A. Martin, Esq., Martin & Associates, and William K. Walker, Esq., Walker Reausaw, for Chenega Technical Products, LLC, an intervenor. Vera Meza, Esq., and Arthur M. Boley, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency performed reasonable price/technical tradeoff in determining that awardee's proposal for transportable water systems represented best value, based on consideration of price and the results of reasonable technical evaluation under listed evaluation factors, consistent with solicitation's evaluation plan; in making tradeoff analysis, agency had reasonable basis to focus on particular discriminator involving realism of logistics effort, even though it was not one of most heavily weighted factors. 2. Agency is not required to advise offerors of minor weaknesses or to reopen discussions where offeror's final proposal revision includes new information that constitutes a weakness or deficiency. 3. If offeror's price is not so high as to be unreasonable, agency is not required to advise that offeror that its price is not competitive. 4. Awardee's proposal on supply contract complies with the solicitation's subcontracting limitation that prime contractor perform work for at least 50 percent of the cost of manufacturing the supplies, not including the costs of materials; in

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