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B-278876.2 1 (1998-05-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahqo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller 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: NAHB Research Center, Inc. File: B-278876.2 Date: May 4, 1998 Thomas L. Howard, Esq., Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, for the protester. Charlene Barton for Ernst & Young, an intervenor. William T. K Dolan, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where protester does not demonstrate that agency's evaluation of experience/performance was unreasonable so as to result in competitive prejudice to the protester. DECISION NAHB Research Center, Inc. protests the General Services Administration's (GSA) award of contracts to Hawkins, Delafield and Wood (HDW), Ernst & Young (EY), Deloitte & Touche (DT), Price Waterhouse (PW), KPMG Peat Warwick, and Arthur Anderson (AA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS11P97MMD970011, for professional consulting services. NAHB challenges GSA's evaluation of experience and past performance. We deny the protest. The solicitation contemplated award of multiple indefinite -delivery/indefinite - quantity contracts for a 1-year base period, with 4 option years, for the professional services of project managers, budget analysts, financial analysts, architect/planners, market analysts, management consultants, and attorneys in support of the Department of Defense's housing privatization program. Awards were to be made to the responsible offerors whose conforming offers were most advantageous to the government, with price significantly less important than technical considerations. The solicitation listed the following four technical factors: (1) experience and past performance on similar projects, which was equal in importance to the remaining factors combined; and (2) key and operating personnel and (3) capabilities of the offeror, which were nearly equal in weight and were each of greater importance than (4) management plan.

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