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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: Resource Management International, Inc.
File: B-278108
Date: December 22, 1997
Catherine E. Pollack, Esq., James J. McCullough, Esq., Joel R. Feidelman, Esq., and
Douglas R.M. King, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for the protester.
David R. Johnson, Esq., and James C. Dougherty, Esq., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher,
for Hagler Bailly Services, Inc., an intervenor.
Gary M. Winter, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the
agency.
Peter A. Jannicelli, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest alleging that the agency improperly awarded a contract to the awardee on
the basis of its lower cost, lower technically rated proposal where the RFP
emphasized that technical factors were significantly more important than cost is
denied where the contracting officer reasonably determined that the protester's and
the awardee's proposals were essentially technically equal and that the slight
technical advantage represented by the protester's proposal did not merit the
expenditure of roughly $[deleted] in additional funds that it would cost to have the
protester perform the work.
DECISION
Resource Management International, Inc. (RMI) protests the United States Agency
for International Development's (USAID) award of a contract for providing technical
assistance to the Government of the Philippines to Hagler Bailly Services, Inc.
(HBS) pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. 492-97-323. The protester
contends that, in deciding to award the contract to HBS on the basis of its lower
priced proposal, the contracting officer placed undue emphasis on cost and ignored
the RFP's stated evaluation criteria, which emphasized technical superiority and
quality of proposed personnel.
We deny the protest.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptager0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)