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B-412535 1 (2016-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrvp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Tetracore, Inc. File: B-412535 Date: January 29, 2016 Gerald H. Werfel, Esq., Baker, Cronogue, Tolle & Werfel, LLP, for the protester. Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., John R. Prairie, Esq., and Cara L. Lasley, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for MRIGIobal, Inc., the intervenor. William B. Blake, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's failure to conduct a cost/technical tradeoff analysis prior to awarding a contract at a higher price than had been proposed by the protester under a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for research proposals is dismissed for failure to present a valid basis of protest where neither procurement regulations regarding BAA procurements nor terms of the BAA required such analysis. DECISION Tetracore, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to MRIGIobal, Inc., of Kansas City, Missouri, under Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) No. 15DHS-001, issued by the Department of the Interior, Interior Business Center, for research proposals of novel approaches to address emerging, zoonotic, and transboundary animal diseases. Contending that its proposal was substantially lower-priced than MRIGIobal's, Tetracore argues that the agency failed to conduct a cost/technical tradeoff analysis to justify a higher-priced award. We dismiss the protest. A BAA is a contracting method by which agencies can acquire basic and applied research to fulfill requirements for scientific study and experimentation directed toward advancing the state of the art or increasing knowledge and understanding, rather than focusing on a specific system or hardware solution. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 35.016. Unlike other competitive procurement methods, a BAA does not contain a specific statement of work, proposals need not be evaluated

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