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B-278730 1 (1998-03-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahpz0001 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: FC Business Systems, Inc. File: B-278730 Date: March 6, 1998 Daniel B. Abrahams, Esq., and Raymond Fioravanti, Esq., Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., for the protester. William M. Rosen, Esq., and Karen Lau, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, LLP, an intervenor. Joshua A. Kranzberg, Esq., and Maj. Scott L. Kilgore, U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Scott Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's source selection decision is sustained where record shows that, contrary to the express terms of the RFP, the agency failed to consider the results of a sample delivery order cost evaluation in the source selection decision. DECISION FC Business Systems, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Logistics Engineering & Environmental Support Services, Inc. (LESCO) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAB07-97-R-6006, issued by the Department of the Army for program management support, and research and analysis services for the Army's Logistics Integration Agency. FC argues that the agency's cost and technical evaluations were flawed and that, as a consequence, the agency's source selection decision was unreasonable. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued for a base year and four 1-year options, contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) type contract with fixed, fully burdened hourly rates for various types of employees, and travel and material costs reimbursed based on actual costs incurred. Firms were required to submit proposal information that described their technical and management approach, and also were

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