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B-275534 1 (1997-03-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafuv0001 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: Global Associates, Ltd. File: B-275534 Date: March 3, 1997 Ross W. Dembling, Esq., and Craig A. Holman, Esq., Holland & Knight, for the protester. Alan D. Groesbeck, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the contracting agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's and awardee's proposals under certain of the technical evaluation criteria is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable; the protester's mere disagreement does not render the agency's judgment unreasonable. 2. A price/technical tradeoff analysis in which the agency quantified in dollars certain technical differences between the awardee's proposal, which received a near perfect rating, and the lower-rated protester's proposal based on costs associated with the protester's predecessor contract, did not give undue weight to one evaluation criterion--past performance--and was not otherwise inconsistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. DECISION Global Associates, Ltd. protests the award of a contract to Enviro-Management & Research, Inc., (EMR) under request for proposals (RFP) No. WO-96-02, issued by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, for writing, editing, and other services in support of the Forest Service's publications program. Global argues that the agency improperly evaluated the proposals and failed to perform a reasonable or proper price/technical tradeoff. 114142

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