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B-277738 1 (1997-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagdo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller 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: ECG, Inc. File: B-277738 Date: October 20, 1997 Robert E. Gregg, Esq., Hazel & Thomas, for the protester. Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., and Joel P. Fuerstenberg, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly evaluated technical proposals is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation factors. DECISION ECG, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Global Technologies, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RP02-97EW40465, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) for advisory services for the evaluation of environmental restoration activities. ECG challenges the propriety of the agency's evaluation of ECG's proposal and asserts that DOE failed to determine whether Global's proposed personnel were current employees as required by the solicitation. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued February 13, 1997, stated that the government anticipated making multiple awards with at least one award going to a small business concern under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) Program.1 The RFP contemplated the award of cost reimbursement, level-of-effort, task order contracts (with performance-based award fees) for a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. DOE anticipated that, in total, 133,920 labor-hours of effort (more than 70 full-time employees) would be required per year for all awards made. The successful offerors are to provide advisory support services requiring highly 1The RFP provided that this small business concern must qualify under Standard Industrial Code (SIC) 8742, with average revenues of less than $5,000,000 per year over the immediate past 3 years.

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