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B-405077.2 1 (2011-10-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoib0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENTFoR-PUBICRELEASE 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: Data Solutions & Technology, Inc. File: B-405077.2 Date: October 12, 2011 Deborah S. Thomas, Data Solutions & Technology, Inc., for the protester. Maj. Andrew J. Smith, Department of the Army, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that its proposal was improperly excluded from the competitive range is denied where the protester has not shown that the agency's evaluation was unreasonable or inconsistent with the stated evaluation criteria. DECISION Data Solutions & Technology, Inc. (DST), of Lanham, Maryland, protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range by the Department of the Army under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9124J-1 1-R-0001 for base support services at various Army installations. DST challenges the evaluation of its proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on December 7, 2010 and contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for a 12-month period with four 12-month option periods. The RFP provided for a best value source selection decision on the basis of the following evaluation factors: mission capability; past performance; and cost/price. RFP at 95-96. The mission capability factor was significantly more important than past performance and was divided into the following five subfactors: response to scenario; management approach; staffing and training approach; quality approach; and technical expertise. Id. The first subfactor, response to scenario, was significantly more important than the four remaining subfactors, which were of equal importance, and when combined, were equal in weight to the first subfactor. Id.

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