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B-278659 1 (1998-02-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahpp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Seedburo Equipment Company File: B-278659 Date: February 25, 1998 Tom Runyon for the protester. Michael F. Kiely, Esq., United States Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where the solicitation's evaluation scheme provided that the combined weight of the technical evaluation factors was significantly more important than price in determining the proposal representing the best value to the government, agency reasonably selected the higher technically rated, higher-priced proposal for award where the record supported the agency's conclusion that this proposal was technically superior to the protester's proposal and that the advantages of the awardee's proposal warranted the payment of a price premium. DECISION Seedburo Equipment Company protests the award of a contract to DICKEY-john Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. 54-M-APHIS-97, issued by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for manual and automated grain moisture meters. Seedburo challenges the agency's price/technical tradeoff resulting in an award to an offeror submitting a higher technically rated, higher-priced proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on May 15, 1997, contemplated the award of a firm, fixed-price requirements contract for basic and option quantities of manual and automated grain moisture meters.1 The RFP provided that only those moisture meter models that met all prequalification requirements and had a certificate of conformance under the National Conference of Weights and Measures, National Type Evaluation Program (NTEP) at the time the RFP was issued would be considered for award. As stated in section C.1 of the RFP, the intent of this procurement was to select a new technology for official moisture measurement/inspection purposes. The RFP 1Amendment No. 0001 of the RFP, issued on May 19, stated that the procurement was a total small business set-aside.

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