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B-280700 1 (1998-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahwo0001 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: Spectrum Sciences & Software File: B-280700 Date: November 9, 1998 Hoke Smith, III, Esq., Powell & Strom, for the protester. Lt. Col. Kevin J. Corcoran, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Exclusion of proposal from the competitive range is improper where the determination to exclude the proposal was based upon an admitted defective evaluation and it is not possible to determine that the proposal without the defective evaluation would not have been among the most highly rated proposals. DECISION Spectrum Sciences and Software, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. F02604-98-R-0001, a total small business set-aside, issued by the Department of Air Force, Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, for operation and maintenance of Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field and Barry M. Goldwater Range Complex. Spectrum contends that the Air Force improperly evaluated its proposal, which resulted in its elimination from the competitive range. We sustain the protest. The RFP was issued on February 6, 1998, to obtain operations and maintenance services under a fixed-price contract for a 12-month base period with four 12-month options. The services to be performed at Gila Bend field and Goldwater range complex include range operations, civil engineering, fire protection, security forces, logistics, lodging, air traffic control, meteorological, custodial, trash and refuse collection, environmental engineering, and range maintenance and communication- electronics. RFP, Performance Work Statement § 1.1. The RFP provided for the award to be made on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of proposals meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for non-cost factors. RFP § M-999(a). Technical acceptability was to be measured under the

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