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B-258322.5 1 (1995-03-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptabyz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision REDACTED DECISION A poteteddeisin ws isud o th dae elow and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: TRESP Associates, Inc.; Advanced Data Concepts, Inc. File: B-258322.5; B-258322.6 Date: March 9, 1995 Mary Beth Bosco, Esq., Timothy B. Mills, Esq., and Christy L. Gherlein, Esq., Patton Boggs, L.L.P., for TRESP Associates, Inc.; and Cyrus E. Phillips IV, Esq., Keck, Mahin & Cate, for Advanced Data Concepts, Inc., the protesters. Joel R. Feidelman, Esq., Deneen J. Melander, Esq., and Brian D Henretty, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for M.H. Chew & Associates, Inc., an interested party. Ronald E. Cone, Esq., and Richard S. Blakely, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Sylvia Schatz, Esq., David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Evaluation of protester's proposal was unreasonable where agency identified weaknesses during discussions, protester addressed the weaknesses, and record indicates that many of the weaknesses were thereby eliminated, but proposal rating was not increased at all and record does not explain why increase was not warranted. 2. Cost/technical tradeoff was unreasonable where agency selected higher-cost proposal for award over lower-cost, similarly rated proposal based primarily on awardee's ability to respond more quickly on short notice, and the fact that awardee's initial proposal contained fewer weaknesses, purportedly indicating better understanding of requirement, and selection is not supported by the record. Finding that awardee had the ability to respond more quickly was based largely on source selection official's general recollection of the two firms' prior performance, which is not documented in either the contemporaneous or protest records; and record contains no explanation, and it is not apparent, why the types of weaknesses identified bear on understanding and, in any case, awardee's initial proposal was evaluated similarly to protester's. 415124

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