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B-265930 1 (1996-01-03)

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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548

Decision


Matter of: Hellenic Technodomiki S.A.

File:       B-265930

Date:       January 3, 1996

D. Kallitsantsis for the protester.
Christopher M. Bellomy, Esq., Cynthia S. Guill, Esq., and Rita M. Liotta, Esq.,
Department of the Navy, for the agency.
Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Award to a higher-rated, slightly higher-priced offeror is reasonable in a best value
procurement where quality, including timely performance, is more important than
price and the awardee's proposal posed a low performance risk with regard to
timely performance, whereas the protester's proposal posed a moderate to high
performance risk.
DECISION

Hellenic Technodomiki S. A. protests an award to Contracting, Ltd. under request
for proposals (RFP) No. N33191-95-R-4361, issued by the Department of the Navy,
Engineering Field Activity Mediterranean, for the construction of shower and locker
rooms, a weight room, and a racquetball court, and the renovation of a gymnasium
at the U.S. Naval Support Activity, Souda Bay, Crete, Greece.

We deny the protest.

The Navy issued the RFP on May 9, 1995, as a reprocurement of a previously
defaulted contract. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract on a
best value basis. The quality evaluation factors were slightly more important than
price. The two quality evaluation factors, and their respective subfactors, were1






1The RFP did not state the relative weights of the quality evaluation factors. In the
absence of a statement of the relative weights of the evaluation factors, they are
considered to be of equal importance to each other. See Lingtec, Inc., B-208777,
Aug. 30, 1983, 83-2 CPD 279.


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