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B-274996 1 (1997-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafso0001 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: LTR Training Systems, Inc. File: B-274996; B-274996.2 Date: January 16, 1997 Katheryn Bradley, Esq., Partnow Sharrock & Tindall, for the protester. Jeff M. Sajdak, Esq., United States Customs Service, Department of the Treasury, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly determined that technical proposals were equal where protester's proposal was allegedly clearly superior is denied where record establishes that the agency reasonably evaluated the respective technical proposals and that this evaluation supports the source selection authority's determination that the proposals were substantially equal technically. As a result, the agency properly made the award on the basis of the lower proposed price. DECISION LTR Training Systems, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Emergency Response Institute (ERI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. CS-I-96-010, issued by the United States Customs Service, Department of the Treasury, for an aviation survival training course. LTR, the incumbent contractor, alleges that the agency's evaluation of proposals was unreasonable and inconsistent with the RFP criteria and that the agency improperly made price the most important evaluation factor for award, contrary to the RFP evaluation scheme. We deny the protest. The solicitation contemplated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for the development of an aviation survival training course and an aviation survival refresher course. The RFP stated that technical merit would be more important than price in the award decision, but noted that price would become the deciding factor if proposals were found to be substantially equal. The RFP further provided that among acceptable proposals with a significant difference in technical merit, the importance or weight given price would be 1129212

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