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B-275935 1 (1997-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafwl0001 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: Sylvest Management Systems Corporation File: B-275935; B-275935.2 Date: April 21, 1997 William F. Savarino, Esq., Cohen & White, for the protester. William M. Rosen, Esq., and Robert J. Moss, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, for BTG, Inc., an intervenor. Michael L. Wills, Esq., Tennessee Valley Authority, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Act, 16 U.S.C. § § 831-831dd (1994), and procurement code adopted by TVA Board require, at a minimum, that TVA consider total price in evaluating proposals and making award decisions. 2. Protest is sustained where record shows that price evaluation improperly failed to include the cost of all required items in its evaluation of awardee's price for computer systems; some required hardware items were listed in the proposal as optional equipment and were priced separately from the systems prices, and a certification executed by the awardee in its best and final offer was not sufficient to include those optional items in the systems at no additional cost. Award therefore improperly was based on less than the actual price of the awardee's systems. DECISION Sylvest Management Services Corporation protests the award of a contract to BTG, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. YD-142201, issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for the purchase of computer hardware and maintenance support services. Sylvest argues that the award to BTG is improper because its evaluated price did not, as TVA believed, include all required equipment. We sustain the protest. The RFP included three broad schedules of products and services. Schedule I was for the purchase of computer maintenance services, and Schedules II and III were for the purchase of various hardware and software upgrades to existing TVA

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