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oComptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision
Matter of: Tidewater Homes Realty, Inc.
File: B-274689.5
Date: August 11, 1998
Howard W. Roth, III, Esq., Arthur Serratelli, Esq., and Daniel R. Weckstein, Esq.,
Vandeventer Black, for the protester.
Anthony F. Radd, Esq., and Steven E. Heretick, Esq., and Glen M. Robertson, Esq.,
Payne, Gates, Farthing & Radd, an intervenor.
Virginia Kelly Stevens, Esq., Department of Housing & Urban Development, for the
agency.
Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Award based on a lower-priced, lower-rated offer rather than a higher-rated, higher-
priced one under a procurement in which technical merit was worth more than
cost/price is proper where the agency reasonably determined that the higher-rated
offer was not so significantly superior to the lower-rated one as to be worth the
associated cost premium.
DECISION
Tidewater Homes Realty, Inc. protests the award of a contract to CitiWest
Properties, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. H03R95062400000, issued by
the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), for real estate asset
manager services for single-family properties owned by HUD or in its custody in the
Virginia Beach area.
We deny the protest.
The RFP, issued June 1, 1995, provided for the award of a fixed-price indefinite-
quantity contract for a base year with 3 option years on a best-value basis with
technical factors worth more than cost/price. RFP §§ B, M.2.a. The technical
evaluation factors and corresponding values were as follows:
1. Demonstrated experience in the management of single-family
properties similar to and in a like area as those covered by this
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