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B-274110.2 1 (1997-05-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafqj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: The Leader Mortgage Company File: B-274110.2 Date: May 19, 1997 Howard M. Metzenbaum, Esq., for the protester. Merilee D. Rosenberg, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-Mc Grail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester was not entitled to award merely because it submitted lowest-priced, technically acceptable offer where solicitation did not provide for award on that basis. 2. Selection of higher-rated, higher-priced offer was consistent with solicitation scoring scheme allocating only 10 percent of evaluation points to price. 3. Protest of solicitation scoring scheme is untimely where scoring scheme was announced in solicitation, but protester did not object to it prior to closing time for receipt of proposals. DECISION The Leader Mortgage Company protests the award of a contract to Computer Data Systems, Inc. (CDSI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 101-36-96, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs for mortgage services. Leader argues that it should have received the award because its price was considerably lower than CDSrs. We deny the protest. The RFP provided for the evaluation of proposals on the basis of technical factors, past performance, and price, with award of a fixed-price, time-and-materials contract to be made to the offeror whose proposal was determined to be in the best interest of the government. Technical evaluation factors included corporate experience and management approach; approach to performing the services; organizational qualifications; personnel; and facilities and equipment. Price was to be scored by dividing the lowest offered price by the offeror's price and multiplying the resulting fraction by the maximum points available (i.e., 10). Offerors were advised that the technical factors would be worth 65 percent of the evaluation 1102421

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