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B-409415,B-409415.2 1 (2014-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqft0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Acc; tabillty nfgilty ReiIbiIkty 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 is io n ........................................................................................................................ Matter of: Management Systems International, Inc. File: B-409415; B-409415.2 Date: April 2, 2014 Robert Nichols, Esq., Anuj Vohra, Esq., and Kayleigh Scalzo, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for the protester. Kevin C. Dwyer, Esq., Daniel E. Chudd, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and Charles L. Capito, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the intervenor. Scott Risner, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is denied where the agency reasonably justified paying a price premium for a technically superior proposal in a best value procurement where the solicitation authorized a price/technical tradeoff. 2. Use of an undisclosed point-weighting evaluation methodology is permissible where the solicitation notified offerors of percentage-weighting of the various technical factors, and the point-weighting corresponds with the percentage- weighting. DECISION Management Systems International (MSI), of Washington, D.C., protests the award of a contract to International Resources Group (IRG), of Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-OAA-12-000092, issued to obtain world-wide training services for agency employees. MSI challenges the agency's technical evaluation of proposals, price-technical tradeoff, and best value decision. The protester also alleges that the agency engaged in unequal discussions and disparately evaluated the final proposal revisions. We deny the protest.

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