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B-265865.3 1 (1996-01-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadsy0001 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: Southwest Marine, Inc.; American Systems Engineering Corporation File: B-265865.3; B-265865.4 Date: January 23, 1996 Peter B. Jones, Esq., and Toni L. Degasperin, Esq., Jones & Donovan, for Southwest Marine, Inc.; and James J. McCullough, Esq., Joel R. Feidelman, Esq., Anne B. Perry, Esq., D. Anthony Trambley, Esq., Lawrence E. Ruggiero, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, and Grant L. Clark, Esq., Science Applications International Corporation, for American Systems Engineering Corporation, the protesters. William W. Goodrich, Jr. Esq., Richard J. Webber, Esq., Tenley A. Carp, Esq., and Alison J. Micheli, Esq., Arent Fox, and Charles P. Mead, Jr., Esq., VSE Corporation, for BAV, the interested party. Michael J. Cunningham, Jr., Esq., and David H. Turner, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. The destruction of individual evaluators' workpapers and scoring sheets by the procuring agency in a negotiated procurement, although improper, did not make the record inadequate for review by the General Accounting Office (GAO) where the remainder of the record, including the parties' arguments, explanations, and hearing testimony, sufficiently explained the agency's evaluation and source selection decision to allow the parties to present their arguments concerning the reasonableness of the agency's actions and for GAO to review the procurement. 2 In a negotiated, best value procurement in which technical merit was stated to be significantly more important than cost/price, award was properly made to the higher-rated, higher-cost offeror where the agency reasonably evaluated the awardee's proposal as being significantly technically superior to that of the other offerors consistent with the stated evaluation criteria and the source selection 15427

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