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B-280113 1 (1998-08-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahuo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: RONCO Consulting Corporation File: B-280113 Date: August 11, 1998 Stephen J. Edelmann for the protester. Robert A. Mangrum, Esq., and Jason I. Hewitt, Esq., Winston & Strawn, for Chemonics International, Inc., an intervenor. Deborah James, Esq., U.S. Agency for International Development, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where the two highest-scored technical proposals, which received scores within 5 percentage points of each other, were reasonably determined to be essentially equal technically, award to the offeror which submitted the lower cost, lower scored proposal is unobjectionable notwithstanding the solicitation's emphasis on technical merit over cost. DECISION RONCO Consulting Corporation protests the award of a contract to Chemonics International, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 624-97-005, issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for technical services to assist the USAID/Mali Mission in increasing production, processing and trade in key economic sub-sectors.1 RONCO alleges that the contracting officer improperly determined that the proposals of RONCO and Chemonics were technically equivalent and made award to Chemonics primarily on the basis of its low cost. RONCO also contends that the agency was biased in making its award determination. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on June 24, 1997, contemplated the award of a cost-plus-award-fee performance-based contract for short- and long-term technical assistance support to and provision of non-academic in-country and third-country workshops, conferences, training, and observation tours; management of sub-contracts; 1The contractor is to provide technical services to the Sustainable Economic Growth (SEG) core team in meeting defined performance increases in production/processing/trade in cereals, livestock, and alternative commodities.

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