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B-275078 1 (1997-01-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafti0001 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: MiTech, Inc. File: B-275078 Date: January 23, 1997 Maria F. Glinsmann, Esq., and Matthew R. Glinsmann, Esq., Glinsmann & Glinsmann, for the protester. Richard J. Conway, Esq., and William M. Rosen, Esq., Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, for Signal Corporation, an intervenor. Beverly M. Russell, Esq., U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where record provides ample support for the agency's conclusion that awardee's technical proposal was substantially superior to that of the protester, agency reasonably concluded that award should be made on the basis of the technically superior proposal notwithstanding the associated cost premium. DECISION MiTech, Inc. protests the award of a contract by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), to Signal Corporation under request for proposals No. DTFH61-96-R-00046 for information technology services supporting the FHWA's Office of Information and Management Services. MiTech asserts that the agency failed to properly evaluate various portions of its proposal and performed an unreasonable cost/technical tradeoff. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On April 26, 1996, the FHWA issued RFP No. DTFH61-96-R-00046 as a competitive section 8(a) set-aside, seeking proposals to provide information technology services supporting the FHWA's Office of Information and Management Services. The RFP required offerors to propose the necessary personnel to perform various services including data communications support, computer applications development and

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