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B-276487.2 1 (1997-06-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafyq0001 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: GTE Hawaiian Telephone Company, Inc. File: B-276487.2 Date: June 30, 1997 Rand L. Allen, Esq., Paul F. Khoury, Esq., David A. Vogel, Esq., and R. Paul Margie, Jr., Esq., Wiley, Rein & Fielding, and Michael W. Clancy, Esq., for the protester. C. Stanley Dees, Esq., Thomas C. Papson, Esq., Patrick K O'Keefe, Esq., and Stephen E. Ruscus, Esq., McKenna & Cuneo, and Steven W. DeGeorge, Esq., for AT&T Corporation, an intervenor. H. Jack Shearer, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. In a negotiated procurement for telecommunications services where the solicitation established detailed functional performance specifications and a page limitation for technical proposals, the procuring agency reasonably determined the compliance of the awardee's (and protester's) proposals based in part upon the firms' promises of compliance with more than 1,300 performance requirements and evidence of technical capability or feasibility. 2. Lower-level evaluators' assessment of significant risk of delay in meeting schedule requirements did not demonstrate that the awardee would not satisfy these requirements, where the source selection official reasonably found that the awardee had committed to, and was capable of, satisfying the schedule requirements. 3. Where price is stated to be more important than the technical and management evaluation factors, the agency's judgment that the awardee's substantial price advantage outweighed the protester's acknowledged technical superiority, primarily in the area of evaluated schedule risk, was reasonable and in accord with the award evaluation criteria. DECISION GTE Hawaiian Telephone Company, Inc. protests the award of a contract to AT&T Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. DCA300-96-R-0001, issued by the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization, Defense Information

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