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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: SGT, Inc.
File: B-281773; B-281773.4
Date: April 1, 1999
Arthur I. Leaderman, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Claire E. Kresse, Esq.,
Smith, Pachter, McWhorter & D'Ambrosio, for the protester.
J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., McMahon, David & Brody, and Myrna E. Friedman, Esq.,
for QSS, Inc., an intervenor.
Vincent A. Salgado, Esq., and Gregory LaRosa, Esq., National Aeronautics & Space
Administration, for the agency.
David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest against agency's evaluation of awardee's response to representative task
order (RTO) is denied where agency reasonably concluded that solicitation did not
require offerors to propose a technical solution, design a device or select a specific
[DELETED] material technology, and that awardee's proposal of a methodology for
performing the RTOs therefore was consistent with the solicitation; the agency
reasonably accounted for protester's more detailed proposal of a higher cost, more
capable [DELETED] material technology by crediting the proposal with significant
strengths for its additional detail and demonstration of a thorough understanding of
the technology, and by normalizing foundry costs in the probable cost figures
presented to the source selection authority.
DECISION
SGT, Inc. protests the National Aeronautics & Space Administration's award of a
contract to QSS Group, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 5-58392/237,
issued as a competitive section 8(a) set-aside for multidisciplinary engineering
development services (MEDS) for the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in
Greenbelt, Maryland. The protesters challenge the evaluation under the technical,
cost and past performance factors.
We deny the protest.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptajhy0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)