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B-280520 1 (1998-10-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahvx0001 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 GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Buck Environmental Technologies, LLC File: B-280520 Date: October 14, 1998 William B. Barton, Jr., Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Mountain & Tolle, for the protester. Lee P. Curtis, Esq., Harvey G. Sherzer, Esq., and Douglas S. Manya, Esq., Howrey & Simon, for PRIMEX Technologies, Inc., the intervenor. Maj. Cynthia Mabry, Vera Meza, Esq., and Terese Marie Harrison, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and Jerold D. Cohen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester was not prejudiced by the agency's consideration of the transportation costs to the government associated with each offeror's proposal in determining which proposal submitted in response to a solicitation for the demilitarization of ammunition represented the best value to the government, where the solicitation did not explicitly state that such costs would be evaluated, because the agency reasonably determined that the costs should be considered and the record does not evidence that if the solicitation had been explicit the protester would have submitted a different proposal that would have had a reasonable possibility of award. 2. Agency's estimate of transportation costs associated with the protester's proposal cannot be determined unreasonable where the estimate was prepared by government transportation rate specialists, and then was reviewed and double- checked by transportation rate specialists in response to the protest, and the protester, despite access to the breakdown of costs associated with the estimate, states only that one area of costs appears excessive and fails to identify any specific errors in the estimate. 3. Agency's evaluation and relatively low rating of the protester's oral presentation and response to discussion questions were reasonable where the presentation and discussion responses failed in some instances to provide certain information specifically requested by the solicitation, and in other instances were very general.

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