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B-277503 1 (1997-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagcm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Northwest Management, Inc. File: B-277503 Date: October 20, 1997 Vincent P. Corrao and James W. Garrett for the protester. Richard Salazar, Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably determined that (1) protester's quotation presented some performance risk where protester had not clearly identified its work force as required by the solicitation and had no experience using the particular methodology to be applied under the solicitation; and (2) given this risk, protester's quotation did not offer the best value to the government despite its slightly lower price. DECISION Northwest Management, Inc. protests the issuance, by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, of a purchase order for stream surveys on the Lob Creek Drainage in Clearwater National Forest, Idaho to Clearwater BioStudies, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. R1-5-97-21. The protester argues that it should have received the purchase order because its quotation represented a better value to the government than Clearwater's. We deny the protest. The RFQ sought a contractor (or contractors) to collect, and compile into a report, stream stability and fish habitat data on streams within the Clearwater National Forest. The streams to be surveyed were grouped under three items: Lob Creek Drainage, Pete King Creek Drainage, and Canyon Creek Drainage. Vendors were advised that more than one purchase order might be issued. Vendors were further advised that selection of a contractor (or contractors) would be based on the following criteria, and that a narrative response to the criteria was to be submitted with the quotation: qualifications and credentials of personnel who will be assigned to supervise and perform the work;

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