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B-407273.3,B-407273.5 1 (2013-02-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadplj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Burke Consortium, Inc. File: B-407273.3; B-407273.5 Date: February 7, 2013 Rebecca E. Pearson, Esq., Robert A. Burton, Esq., Elizabeth A. Buehler, Esq., and Christina K. Kube, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Anthony L. Washington, Esq., for Mason Harriman Group, an intervenor. Charles K. Bucknor Jr., Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of an agency's price evaluation is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that an awardee's lower-priced proposal was realistic and consistent with its highly-rated technical proposal. 2. Protest that an agency should have assigned lower past performance ratings to awardees that submitted less than the required number of past performance questionnaires is denied where, consistent with solicitation's evaluation criteria, the agency reasonably evaluated offerors' past performance based upon information in their proposals as well as from other available sources. 3. Protest of an agency's selection decisions is denied where, consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria, the agency found qualitative differences in the protester's and awardees' proposals and reasonably concluded that the protester's higher-priced proposal did not provide the best value to the government. DECISION Burke Consortium, Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) decision not to award Burke a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSHQDC-1 1 -R-1 0001 for information technology services. The protester challenges the agency's technical evaluation of its proposal, as well as the agency's price and technical evaluations, and source selection, of a number of awardees' proposals.

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