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B-299818,B-299818.2,B-299818.3,B-299818.4 1 (2007-09-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadagt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General c 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: Systems Research and Applications Corporation; Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. File: B-299818; B-299818.2; B-299818.3; B-299818.4 Date: September 6, 2007 David P. Metzger, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., Caitlin K. Cloonan, Esq., and Stuart W. Turner, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for Systems Research and Applications Corporation; and Paul F. Khoury, Esq., William J. Grimaldi, Esq., and John R. Prairie, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., the protesters. Robert J. Symon, Esq., Douglas L. Patin, Esq., Jeremy Becker-Welts, Esq., and Steven A. Pozefsky, Esq., Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP, for Jacobs Technology, the intervenor. Brent Curtis, Esq., Sean M. Hannaway, Esq., and Bernice A. Pasternak, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Admission of a consultant to a GAO protective order was appropriate, over the objection that the consultant once held a position with the protester and that the consultant's daughter was currently employed by the protester, where the record shows that the consultant had no continuing interest in the protester and the consultant's daughter held a relatively low-level position with the protester in a division that was unrelated to the work to be performed under the protested contract. 2. Protest is sustained in a negotiated procurement for award on a best value basis, which provided for evaluation of the degree to which offerors' proposals met or exceeded requirements, where the agency failed to qualitatively assess the merits of the offerors' differing approaches. DECISION Systems Research and Applications Corporation (SRA) and Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (BAH) protest the award of a contract to Jacobs Technology under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8721-06-R-0001, issued by the Department of the Air Force for engineering and technology acquisition support services (ETASS) for the

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