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B-274389 1 (1996-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaelx0001 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: Israel Aircraft Industries, Ltd., MATA Helicopters Division File: B-274389; B-274389.2; B-274389.3 Date: December 6, 1996 Howard J. Stanislawski, Esq., Gary P. Quigley, Esq., and Richard L. Larach, Esq., Sidley & Austin, for the protester. Irvin Becker, Esq., for Lear Astronics Corporation, the intervenor. Joshua A. Kranzberg, Esq., and Tina Marie Pixler, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 1. In a negotiated procurement with a stated best value evaluation plan, a contracting agency reasonably may assign a technically acceptable proposal fewer than the maximum possible evaluation score where such rating is reasonable and consistent with the evaluation methodology applied to all proposals. 2. Enhanced safety of a proposed auxiliary fuel monitoring system for a helicopter, when considered in a source selection decision, is not an unstated evaluation factor where, although not specifically stated as a factor, it is intrinsic to various stated evaluation factors. 3. Agency's identification of advantages in a proposal is not improper, even where solicitation does not state that agency will identify advantages in addition to numerically rating proposals, since source selection officials in best value procurements may always consider such information when analyzing numerical ratings. 4. Agency reasonably may evaluate an offer as posing a higher past performance risk than other offers where the offeror's performance history as stated in the proposal or otherwise obtained by the agency during evaluations is less relevant to the solicited requirement than that of the offerors rated as having a low performance risk. 5. Selection of a higher priced, higher rated offeror under a procurement where non-price factors are more important than price is reasonable where the source

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