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B-416415,B-416415.2 1 (2018-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvbu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Earth Resources Technology Inc. File: B-416415; B-416415.2 Date: August 31, 2018 Ronald S. Perlman, Esq., and Daniel P. Hanlon, Esq., Holland & Knight, LLP, for the protester. John E. Jensen, Esq., and Robert Starling, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Global Science & Technology, Inc., the intervenor. Mark Langstein, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the evaluation of the vendors' proposals is denied where the agency's evaluation did not rely on unstated evaluation criteria and was otherwise reasonable. 2. Agency was not required to consider information allegedly known to agency personnel regarding the protester's proposed key personnel where that information was not included in the protester's proposal. 3. Protest that the agency failed to reasonably evaluate whether the awardee would be able to perform the task order at the price proposed is dismissed where the solicitation did not provide for the evaluation of the realism of vendors' prices. DECISION Earth Resources Technology Inc. (ERT), of Laurel, Maryland, a small business, protests the issuance of a task order to Global Science & Technology, Inc. (GST), of Greenbelt, Maryland, also a small business, by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. NEEDOOOO-1 8-00391. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated the vendors' technical proposals and failed to assess whether the awardee could perform the task order requirements at its proposed price. We deny in part and dismiss in part the protest.

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