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B-280928 1 (1998-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahxf0001 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: Westinghouse Government and Environmental Services Company, Inc. File: B-280928; B-280928.2; B-280929; B-280929.2 Date: December 4, 1998 Stanley R. Soya, Esq., Richard J. Vacura, Esq., and Sheila C. Stark, Esq., Piper & Marbury, and Hopewell H. Darneille III, Esq., Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, for the protester. Harvey G. Sherzer, Esq., Jeffrey N. Eisenstein, Esq., Lee P. Curtis, Esq., Scott Arnold, Esq., and Douglas S. Manya, Esq., Howrey & Simon, for Bechtel National, Inc., the intervenor. Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., James S. Carey, Jr., Esq., and Patricia D. Graham, Esq., Department of Energy; and Rebecca K Cressy, Esq., Robert D. Hogue, Esq., William A. Longwell, Esq., Michael J. Glennon, Esq., John M. Davis, Esq., and Kelly K Swartz, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agencies. Adam Vodraska, Esq., John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the contracting agencies unreasonably evaluated the protester's and awardee's competing proposals is denied where the record demonstrates that the evaluation was reasonable. 2. Award to the offeror submitting the higher priced, technically superior proposal in response to a solicitation which provided that technical merit was more important than price is unobjectionable where the contracting agencies reasonably determined that the awardee's superior technical proposal was worth the additional cost. DECISION Westinghouse Government and Environmental Services Company, Inc. (GESCO) protests the award of contracts to Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) by the Pittsburgh Naval Reactors Office, Department of Energy (DOE), and the Naval Sea Systems Command, Department of the Navy, under request for proposals (RFP) Nos. DE- RP11-98PN38001 and N00024-98-R-4064, respectively, a joint procurement for the management and operation of the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, and for design, development, improvement, and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants.

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