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B-281142 1 (1999-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajfl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: National Steel and Shipbuilding Company File: B-281142; B-281142.2 Date: January 4, 1999 Michael Hordell, Esq., Brian A. Darst, Esq., and Laura L. Hoffman, Esq., Gadsby & Hannah, for the protester. Daniel R. Weekstein, Esq., Howard W. Roth, Esq., and Arthur Serratelli, Esq., Vandeventer Black, for Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation, the intervenor. Daniel W. Wentzell, Esq., and Michelle C. Simms, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Discussions regarding protester's significantly understated staffing estimates were meaningful where the protester was generally advised of a number of significant shortfalls in its estimates, specifically informed of the single-most significant area of concern, and advised to provide detailed support for its estimates. 2. Technical evaluation that concluded that the protester's proposal's staffing estimates for ship conversion work evidenced a lack of understanding was reasonable where the proposed staffing was significantly less than that reflected in the independent government estimate, which was based on actual data from completed contracts for similar ship conversion work, as well as the contract cost experiences on conversion work on sister ships, and the protester's proposal did not provide adequate support for the claims of substantial efficiencies as would justify such low staffing estimates. 3. Agency's application of an intrinsic value cost evaluation factor included in a solicitation for ship conversion work to credit offerors for proposed early completion of ship repair was unobjectionable. 4. Where the solicitation gave significant evaluation weight to determining the realism of staffing estimates to assess understanding of the scope of work, the

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