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B-402133 1 (2010-01-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbdh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: John Blood File: B-402133 Date: January 15, 2010 John Blood for the protester. Elin M. Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of evaluation of protester's quotation, and selection of higher-priced, higher technically rated quotation, is denied where evaluation and selection were reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation evaluation criteria. DECISION John Blood, of Flagstaff, Arizona, protests the evaluation of his quotation and the selection of the higher-priced, higher technically rated quotation submitted by Lara Brothers, Ltd., of Castle Rock, Washington, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. AG-0276-S-09-0032, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for tree thinning services in Clearwater National Forest. We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued on August 3, 2009 (as a small business set-aside, commercial item procurement under simplified acquisition procedures), sought price and technical quotations for the tree thinning services. The source selection, considering technical and price factors (where technical factors combined were to be approximately equal in importance to price), was to be based on the technically acceptable quotation that presented the technical/price relationship considered most advantageous to the government. RFQ at 45. The RFQ set out three technical evaluation factors, each ' The objective of the tree thinning work is to improve forest health and yield capability by removing certain undesirable trees and retaining other trees.

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