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B-401315,B-401315.2 1 (2009-07-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadayg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: GC&E Systems Group, Inc. File: B-401315; B-401315.2 Date: July 9, 2009 Michael H. Payne, Esq., Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman, for the protester. Timothy A. Furin, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misled protester into increasing its staffing and, consequently, its price, when it provided vendors with government's minimum estimated staffing is denied where agency specifically advised offerors that estimate was just that, and that it was vendor's responsibility to determine adequate staffing. DECISION GC&E Systems Group, Inc., of Norcross, Georgia, protests the issuance of a task order for communications services to Altech Services, Inc., of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under a task order proposal request (TOPR) issued by the Department of the Army under contract No. W91RUS-08-D-0004. GC&E maintains that the agency misled it into increasing its staffing unnecessarily. We deny the protest. The TOPR provided for the issuance of a task order to the vendor whose proposal provided the best value to the government considering technical support (with subfactors for technical expertise, services, and quality control) and price. TOPR at 6. As relevant here, under the technical expertise subfactor vendors were required to address staffing levels, including a detailed description of the staffing outline for all positions. Id. The solicitation, as issued, included historical workload data to assist vendors in developing their staffing plans, but after receiving and evaluating initial quotations the agency provided vendors with the government's estimated minimum staffing. Army E-mail, Mar. 17, 2009. The Army also sent each vendor discussion questions concerning specific weaknesses in their proposals. Following the receipt and evaluation of final proposal revisions, both Altech's and GC&E's proposals were rated acceptable for each non-price factor. Altech proposed

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