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B-280969 1 (1998-12-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahxk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller 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: MCR Federal, Inc. File: B-280969 Date: December 14, 1998 William L. Walsh, Jr., Esq., J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., Wm. Craig Dubishar, Esq., and Paul N. Wengert, Esq., Venable, Baetjer and Howard, for the protester. David R. Johnson, Esq., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, for PricewaterhouseCoopers, an interveno r. John F. Ruoff, Esq., Defense Finance and Accounting Service, for the agency. Susan K McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of proposal evaluation and source selection under solicitation where technical factors are more important than price is sustained where the contracting officer's determination that the awardee's lower-priced proposal was technically superior to that of the protester is inconsistent with the solicitation's evaluation scheme, and where the record provides insufficient contemporaneous documentation to either support agency's post-protest assertion that the proposals are technically comparable--so that price would become an appropriate discriminator for award--or show that the source selection authority ever considered whether the protester's higher rating in one area (key personnel) was worth the cost premium associated with its proposal. DECISION MCR Federal, Inc. protests the award of contracts to KPMG Peat Marwick, (KPMG) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. MDA220-98-R-0004, issued by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) for contract reconciliation services.1 MCR challenges the agency's source selection decision as inconsistent with the stated evaluation scheme for award. 1The contractor is to provide reconciliation and special studies services to DFAS and other Department of Defense entities to reconcile accounting, finance, and contractual records, including out-of-balance conditions, problem financial records, and contract clo se-out requirements.

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