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B-278904.4 1 (1998-04-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahqv0001 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: Centech Group, Inc. File: B-278904.4 Date: April 13, 1998 Kenneth A. Martin, Esq., and Jennifer C. Adams, Esq., Martin Rylander, for the protester. Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., Patricia D. Graham, Esq., and Joseph A. Lenhard, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where solicitation proposal preparation instructions set forth type size and a clearly defined page limitation for proposals, agency appropriately declined to consider those pages of the protester's proposal which exceeded the specified page limitation. 2. Protest that agency failed to perform proper cost/technical tradeoff is denied where source selection official balanced technical merit and price and reasonably determined that the evaluated technical superiority of the 11 highest technically- rated proposals warranted payment of the cost premium associated with certain of those proposals, and determined not to make an award to the protester whose proposal was ranked 12th of 18 proposals on technical merit and offered the 9th-low cost of the 12 highest technically-ranked proposals. DECISION Centech Group, Inc. protests the award of contracts to 11 firms under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RPO1-97EI30000, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) for technical services for the Energy Information Administration (EIA).1 Centech argues that DOE arbitrarily eliminated certain pages of Centech's proposal from consideration and improperly failed to consider price in making the award determinations. We deny the protest. 1EIA is an independent statistical and analytical agency within DOE.

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