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B-274698.2 1 (1997-01-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafqy0001 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: PRC, Inc. File: B-274698.2; B-274698.3 Date: January 23, 1997 L. James D'Agostino, Esq., Timothy B. Harris, Esq., and William B. Fisher, Esq., Wickwire Gavin, for the protester. Stuart Young, Esq., DynCorp for TESCO, an intervenor. Vera Meza, Esq., and Phillip A. Weaver, Esq., the 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. Award to lower-rated, lower-cost offeror is unobjectionable where, although the solicitation emphasized technical factors over cost, the agency reasonably determined that there was no substantive difference between the proposals that warranted the additional cost of the higher-rated proposal. 2. Protest alleging unfair competitive advantage accruing to an offeror as a result of employing the retired commanding officer of an organization which included the procuring activity is denied where the record does not show that this individual accessed competitively useful inside information. DECISION PRC, Inc. protests an award to TESCO, a joint venture,1 under request for proposals (RFP) No. DATMO1-95-R-0019, issued by the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), Operational Test and Evaluation Command (OPTEC) Contracting Activity, for test support services required by the Test and Evaluation Command (TEXCOM), Fort Hood, Texas. PRC protests the reasonableness of the evaluation and source selection decision, and that TESCO obtained an unfair competitive advantage through its employment of an Army procurement official. 1TESCO's joint venture partners are DynCorp, COMARCO, and EWA Services, Inc. DynCorp is the managing partner. 348320

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