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B-275180.2 1 (1997-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaftp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Engineering and Computation, Inc. File: B-275180.2 Date: January 29, 1997 Suresh K Verma for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., Cohen & White, for IIT Research Institute, an intervenor. Louis R. Durnya, Esq., and Richard N. Wolf, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Even if the agency's reevaluation of the protester's proposal was flawed and the protester should have been evaluated as the low cost offeror, the protester was not prejudiced since under the solicitation's evaluation methodology where technical evaluation factors were weighted equal to cost, the agency could reasonably make a cost/technical tradeoff and award the contract to the incumbent contractor which was rated excellent for the relevant corporate experience and past performance evaluation factor, as opposed to the protester, a new corporate entity rated neutral for this evaluation factor because it had no prior corporate experience and past performance and the solicitation did not provide for consideration of the experience of the firm's key personnel in evaluating corporate experience and past performance. DECISION Engineering and Computation, Inc. (ECI) protests the reevaluation of its proposal and the selection of IIT Research Institute (IITRI) for the award of a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. 8-H-5-EH-18305, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the operation and maintenance of metallurgy research facilities at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In Engineering and Computation, Inc., B-261658, Oct. 16, 1995, 95-2 CPD 176, we sustained ECI's protest because we could not determine the reasonableness of the agency's selection decision since it was based on unsupported evaluation conclusions and the agency failed to rebut ECI's protest assertions that its proposal was misevaluated. We recommended that the agency reevaluate all proposals, document 541129

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