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B-272748 1 (1996-10-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaejt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller 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: Science & Technology, hie.; Madison Services, Inc. File: B-272748; B-272748.2; B-272748.3; B-272748.4 Date: October 25, 1996 E. Manning Seltzer, Esq., and Mark E. Davis, Esq., Seltzer & Rosen, for Science & Technology, Inc., and Lynn Hawkins Patton, Esq., Ott & Purdy, for Madison Services, Inc., the protesters. Nancy 0. Dix, Esq., Gray Cary Ware Freidenrich, for Steinhoff & Sadler, Inc., an interveno r. Major Michael J. O'Farrell and Gregory A. Lund, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Behn Miller, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting officials misrepresented protester's past performance record is denied where past performance conclusions are reasonably supported by the record, and there is no evidence that contracting officials were biased against the protester or otherwise acted in bad faith. 2. Protest that awardee was improperly permitted to rely on subcontractors' experience under various technical evaluation factors is denied where the solicitation did not restrict offerors from proposing subcontractors or relying on their experience. 3. Protest that contracting agency improperly relied on an unstated evaluation factor concerning offeror's phase-out approach is denied where the solicitation proposal preparation instructions clearly put offerors on notice that a detailed phase-out plan was required and would be evaluated under the general management evaluation factor. 4. Protest that agency arbitrarily deducted points from second-ranked offeror's general management score is denied where the lower point score does not reflect deductions, but rather reflects what the agency reasonably determined was the level of quality indicated in this area of the offeror's proposal. 311318

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