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B-407966 1 (2013-05-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpnh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Acc ntabty ,i*ngilty I ReliIbikty 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Global Dynamics, LLC File: B-407966 Date: May 6, 2013 Craig A. Holman, Esq., and Lauren J. Schlanger, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. Antonio R. Franco, Esq., and Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for GiaCare and MedTrust JV, LLC, an intervenor. Capt. Ahsan Nasar, Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of exclusion of protester's proposal from the competitive range is sustained where evaluation under two subfactors was unreasonable, and reasonable evaluation might have resulted in a different competitive range determination. DECISION Global Dynamics, LLC (GD), of Columbia, Maryland, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. W81 K04-12-R-0025, issued by the Department of the Army for registered nursing services for the San Antonio Military Healthcare System. The protester contends that the decision to exclude its proposal was the result of an improper evaluation. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, which was issued on September 14, 2012, contemplated the award of an indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery contract for a 5-year period to the offeror whose proposal represented the best value to the government. Proposals were to be evaluated on the basis of price and the following four non-price factors, in descending order of importance: personnel methodology, management capability, staffing approach, and past performance. When combined, the non-price factors were significantly more important than price. The personnel methodology factor

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