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B-277396 1 (1997-10-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagcf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Pickering Firm Incorporated File: B-277396 Date: October 9, 1997 Joe B. Emison, Jr., for the protester. Robert C. Miller, Esq., and C. Grady Moore, Jr., Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. C. Douglas McArthur, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where Commerce Business Daily (CBD) announcement stated that agency would consider qualifications and experience of architect-engineer (A-E) firms in nine disciplines and evaluators considered the protester superior in its qualifications and experience in one of them--museum/exhibit design--record fails to show that evaluation and selection decision were inconsistent with CBD announcement where the announcement identified none of the nine disciplines as more important than the others; agency found the awardee's qualifications and experience superior for other disciplines; and source selection board could reasonably conclude that there was no significant difference in the qualifications and experience of the two firms. 2. Where CBD announcement stated that evaluation of specialized experience and technical competence would include knowledge of local and regional codes and regulations, source selection board's conclusion that awardee's proposal presented an advantage in its superior knowledge of local and regional codes and regulations was consistent with the announced factors; protester's objection to the consideration of such a factor constitutes an untimely allegation of a solicitation defect. 3. General Accounting Office will not reevaluate offeror's capabilities or make its own determination of the relative merit of proposals, and where evaluation of management structure appears reasonable and consistent with the announced criteria, the protester's disagreement with the evaluation provides no basis for sustaining a protest.

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