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B-270456 1 (1996-03-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadyu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Sutron Corporation File: B-270456; B-270456.2 Date: March 7, 1996 Ross W. Dembling, Esq., Craig A. Holman, Esq., and Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., Holland & Knight, for the protester. Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., and Justin P. Patterson, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., , Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably found protester's proposal unacceptable where it offered inexperienced field maintenance technicians with insufficient hours and significantly lowered its price in its best and final offer without explanation, despite being advised during discussions that the offered technicians were considered inexperienced, that too few hours were being proposed, and that its price was considered questionably low, given the other concerns. DECISION Sutron Corporation protests the award of a contract to Vitel, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 14252-5-SP-10-13670, issued by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, for preventive and remedial maintenance service of the hydrological and meteorological data acquisition (hydromet) system1 in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Sutron protests the agency's conduct of discussions, evaluation of proposals, and source selection decision. We deny the protests. The hydromet system consists of 164 remote sites at which a data collection platform (manufactured by either Sutron or Vitel) collects hydrological and meteorological data from sensors and sends that data via satellite to the agency's Direct Readout Ground Station (DRGS) in Boise, Idaho. The DRGS is hardwired into the agency's central computer facility. Each remote site platform transmits 1The contract also includes an option for maintenance of remote sites in the agrimet system, which collects data for agricultural purposes. 32037

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