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B-275419 1 (1997-02-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafuk0001 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: Doss Aviation, Inc.; Dominion Aviation, Inc. File: B-275419; B-275419.2; B-275419.3 Date: February 20, 1997 Thomas G. Jeter, Esq., and Mark J. Meagher, Esq., McKenna & Cuneo, for Doss Aviation, Inc.; John R. Thompson, for Dominion Aviation, Inc., the protesters. Col. Nicholas P. Retson, and Maj. Michael J. O'Farrell, Department of the Army, for the agency. Harvey G. Sherzer, Esq., William A. Roberts, Esq., Lee P. Curtis, Esq., and Terry M. Petrie, Esq., Howrey & Simon, for UNC Aviation Services, an intervenor. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency mechanically applied an undisclosed staffing estimate in evaluating proposals is denied where the solicitation put offerors on notice that staffing was a critical area of the evaluation, offerors were required to describe the number of personnel that would perform the work and show how the agency's stated flight training requirements would be met, offerors were advised during discussions as to whether their proposals included fewer instructor pilots than were considered necessary under the agency estimate, and there is no indication in the record that the agency unreasonably overlooked or rejected specific elements of offerors' proposed staffing approaches which were likely to result in the need for fewer instructor pilots than the agency estimate. 2. Protest that in best value procurement agency improperly awarded additional evaluation credit based on aspects of awardee's proposal that exceeded the solicitation's minimum requirements is denied; where detailed technical proposals are sought and technical evaluation criteria are used to enable the agency to make comparative judgments about the relative merits of competing proposals, offerors are on notice that qualitative distinctions among the technical proposals will be made under the various evaluation factors, and there is no basis to object to the 1023313

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