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B-404130 1 (2011-01-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbqo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,G A O Comptroller General LXn , 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: Global Consulting International, Inc. File: B-404130 Date: January 5, 2011 Kenneth A. Martin, Esq., The Martin Law Firm, for the protester. William K. Walker, Esq., Walker Reausaw, for IT Transformations JV, and William B. Barton, Esq., Jon Tolle, Esq., and Bryan King, Esq., Barton, Baker, Thomas & Tolle, LLP, for Morgan Borszcz Consulting, LLC, intervenors. Liana D. Henry, General Services Administration, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably downgraded proposal for failure to comply with solicitation requirements for staffing approach submissions where offeror submitted key personnel qualification matrices that did not address specific solicitation key personnel experience requirements, and where its submissions exceeded the solicitation's page limitations. DECISION Global Consulting International, Inc. (GCI), of Salt Lake City, Utah, protests the General Services Administration's award of contracts to Morgan Borszcz Consulting, LLC (MBC), of Alexandria, Virginia, and IT Transformations JV (ITT), of Anchorage, Alaska, under request for proposals (RFP) No. GSC-QFOB-10-Q006, for strategic enterprise planning system (ERP) implementation support for the Department of the Air Force's Logistics Transformation Office. GCI challenges the evaluation of proposals. We deny the protest. The RFP, a section 8(a) competitive acquisition, contemplated the award--on a best value basis--of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, for a base year with 4 option years, to furnish technical, functional, and managerial expertise to assist in the re-engineering of legacy Air Force logistics processes. Proposals, including both written and oral presentations, were to be evaluated under six factors (in descending order of importance): technical approach, staffing approach,

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