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B-405578 1 (2011-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpbr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller 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 Decision approved for public release Matter of: Intercomp Company, Inc. File: B-405578 Date: November 21, 2011 Timothy M. Connelly, Esq., for the protester. Harold Thomas, General Electrodynamics Corporation, for the intervenor. Elan Taylor, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to consider criteria other than past performance and price is denied where the solicitation required consideration of other criteria only in the event of a tradeoff, and no tradeoff was necessary. DECISION Intercomp Company, Inc., of Medina, Minnesota, protests the award of a contract to General Electrodynamics Corporation (GEC) by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPM4A6-1 1-R-1322 for 30 sets of digital aircraft weighing scales. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was issued on July 7, 2011, and contemplated award of a fixed-price contract to provide 30 sets of digital aircraft weighing scales to be used for weighing U.S. Army helicopters. The RFP required that the scales be delivered within 233 days after the date of award, and stated that, unless delivery was identified as an evaluation factor elsewhere in the solicitation, there would be no evaluation preference or penalty for faster delivery. RFP at 12. Section 52.212-2, titled Evaluation--Commercial Items, referred offerors to two other solicitation clauses, M15F32 and M15CO6, for the factors to be evaluated. Id. at 7. Clause M15F42, titled Evaluation and Award, stated that the agency would base its

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