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B-400454.3 1 (2008-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadare0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General WAN 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: Smart Data Solutions, LLC File: B-400454.3 Date: November 21, 2008 Terrence M. O'Connor, Esq., and Stephanie D. Wilson, Esq., Albo & Oblon, LLP, for the protester. Maj. John G. Terra, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the awardee's staffing plan provides for too few personnel is denied where agency reasonably determined that the awardee's proposed approach will meet the performance requirements and the protester's assertion is based solely on a comparison of the total number of personnel it proposed with the total number of personnel proposed by the awardee. DECISION Smart Data Solutions, LLC (SDS) of Baltimore, Maryland protests the award of a contract to Black Box Technologies (BBT) of Pensacola, Florida under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4890-08-R-0004, issued by the Department of the Air Force for weather forecasting and weather and radar equipment maintenance services. SDS contends that the BBT proposal did not conform to the staffing requirements of the RFP. We deny the protest. The RFP was issued on March 19, 2008 and contemplated the award of a single fixed- price contract for weather services and maintenance--with cost reimbursable contract line item numbers (CLINs) for travel, material and overtime pay--for a base period followed by four 1-year option periods. With respect to the cost reimbursable CLINs, the RFP provided a lump sum, not-to-exceed amount for each CLIN. The RFP provided that award would be made to the offeror whose proposal was determined to represent the best value using a technically acceptable/performance/ price tradeoff procedure. RFP at 39. That is, the proposals would first be evaluated

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