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B-277422 1 (1997-10-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagci0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: ECC International Corporation File: B-277422, B-277422.2 Date: October 14, 1997 Melvin Rishe, Esq., Howard J. Stanislawski, Esq., and Richard L. Larach, Esq., Sidley & Austin, for the protester. Thomas J. Madden, Esq., Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., and Johana A. Reed, Esq., Venable Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, LLP, for AAI Corporation, an intervenor. Marian E. Sullivan, Esq., and Gregory D. Whitt, Esq., Department of the Air Force, 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 Protest challenging agency's assignment of risk assessment ratings is denied where record shows that there was a reasonable basis for the agency's conclusions that protester's proposal presented a high risk of unsuccessful performance in one technical area and that awardee's proposal presented only a moderate cost risk. DECISION ECC International Corporation protests the award of a contract to AAI Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. F33657-97-R-2009, issued by the Department of the Air Force for concurrency upgrades and logistics support of the agency's C-17 aircraft maintenance training devices. ECC maintains that the Air Force misevaluated proposals in the area of past performance and made an irrational cost/technical tradeoff in awarding the contract to AAI. ECC also maintains that the evaluation reflects bias on the part of the agency against ECC. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award of a combination cost reimbursement/firm, fixed- price contract on a best value basis to perform modifications to two suites of C-17 aircraft maintenance training devices (MTD), as well as ongoing logistics support and the conduct of a maintenance training analysis study for the C-17 MTD program. The modifications portion of the contract, the largest dollar item being procured, is to be performed on a cost reimbursement basis, while the logistics support and maintenance training analysis study are to be performed on a firm,

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