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B-260447.4 1 (1996-03-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadpr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: AT&T Corporation File: B-260447.4 Date: March 4, 1996 Francis J. O'Toole, Esq., Robert J. Conlan, Jr., Esq., Joseph C. Port, Jr., Esq., and Michael L. Shore, Esq., Sidley & Austin, and Steven W. DeGeorge, Esq., and Nathaniel Friends, Esq., AT&T Corporation, for the protester. Kenneth M. Bruntel, Esq., Paul Shnitzer, Esq., John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., and Jacqueline E. Hand, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for Comsat RSI, Inc., an interested party. Douglas G. White, Esq., and H. Jack Shearer, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. A definitive responsibility criterion is a specific and objective standard, qualitative or quantitative, that is established by a contracting agency in a solicitation to measure an offeror's ability to perform a contract. Further, in order to be a definitive responsibility criterion, the solicitation provision must reasonably inform offerors that they must demonstrate compliance with the standard as a precondition to receiving award. 2. A selection decision by a contracting agency is not automatically voided because of an allegedly inadequate contemporaneous evaluation record. In reviewing a selection decision, the General Accounting Office looks at the entire record, including statements and arguments made in response to a protest, so that we can determine whether the selection decision is supportable; we do not limit our review to the question of whether the agency determination was properly documented at the time it was made. 3. Where selection officials reasonably regard proposals as being essentially equal technically, cost may become the determinative factor in making an award 450425

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