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B-270505.2 1 (1996-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadzf0001 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: Brown & Root, Inc. and Perini Corp., a joint venture File: B-270505.2; B-270505.3 Date: September 12, 1996 Rand L. Allen, Esq., Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Christopher R. Yukins, Esq., and Phillip H. Harrington, Esq., Wiley, Rein & Fielding, for the protester. Kathleen C. Little, Esq., David R. Johnson, Esq., Robert J. Rothwell, Esq., McDermott, Will & Emery, for H.B. Zachry Company, The Parsons Corporation, and Sundt Corp., a joint venture, the intervenor. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where agency brought principal concerns about the protester's proposal to the attention of the protester and since various other weaknesses, both individually and in toto, did not prevent the protester from having a reasonable chance for award, the agency's failure to point out those other weaknesses did not deprive the protester of meaningful discussions; agency was not required to hold discussions regarding every weakness identified in the protester's proposal. 2. Where a solicitation lists evaluation factors and subfactors in descending order of importance, each factor listed and each subfactor within each factor is of decreasing weight; such an evaluation scheme does not indicate that the subfactors of lower-weighted factors are necessarily of less individual weight than subfactors of higher-weighted factors. 3. Agency scoring and weighting method used to evaluate and rank offers was consistent with the evaluation scheme stated in the solicitation and did not produce an irrational award selection result. 4. Protester was not prejudiced by the agency's alleged waiver of a requirement that potential offerors have certain security clearances by an established date where the record does not evidence that had the protester been aware of the allegedly relaxed requirement, it would have submitted a different proposal that would have had a reasonable possibility of award. 1331015

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