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B-281393 1 (1999-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajgq0001 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: Deva & Associates, P.C. File: B-281393 Date: February 1, 1999 John E. Jensen, Esq., Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge, for the protester. James S. Phillips, Esq., and James S. DelSordo, Esq., Kinosky, Phillips & Lieberman, for Tessada & Associates, Inc., an intervenor. John F. Ruoff, Esq., Defense Finance and Accounting Service, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee should not have received favorable past performance rating because it is not an accounting firm is denied where solicitation provided that past performance evaluation would be based on offeror's performance of similar services, and did not refer to status as accounting firm. 2. Protest that agency's failure to consider references precluded it from properly evaluating past performance is denied where solicitation required offerors to furnish detailed past performance information and provided only that references may be contacted; information required by solicitation provided sufficient basis for past performance evaluation. 3. Protest that awardee's technical score should have been lowered based on the awardee's low proposed wage rates for accountants and its low overall price is denied where agency reasonably concluded that awardee's rates were not substantially different from rates offered by other competitive range offerors, and price would be adequate to cover costs of performance. 4. Protest that agency did not consider protester's superior past performance rating in performing price/technical tradeoff is denied where record shows that in performing the tradeoff the agency was aware of the past performance and technical ratings, as well as the proposed prices of all offerors.

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