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B-282571 1 (1999-07-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajke0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AdvanChip Corporation File: B-282571 Date: July 29, 1999 Alice Yue for the protester. Bruce E. Thomason for CyberMetrix, Inc., an intervenor. Sherry K Kaswell, Esq., Department of Interior, 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 Protest that agency misevaluated protester's past performance is denied where record shows information submitted by protester did not demonstrate that protester had performed contracts with scientific instrumentation applications, as agency concluded. DECISION AdvanChip Corporation protests the award of a contract to CyberMetrix, Inc. under request for proposals No. 98CRSS1011, issued by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for the development of a data acquisition and manipulation software package for use on a PC-based data collection platform, for the agency's network of magnetic observatories. AdvanChip maintains that the agency misevaluated its proposal. We deny the protest. The solicitation provided that the contract would be awarded on the basis of the best value to the government, with the non-price factors (technical excellence, resource availability and past performance) being more important than price. RFP §§ M.4 M2320(b), M.5 M2335(a). With respect to the non-price factors, technical excellence was worth twice as much as resource availability and past performance, which were equal to each other. RFP § M.4 M2320(b). Past performance was to be evaluated based on the offeror's successful development of similar systems, including complexity and diversity of systems, and timeliness of performance. RFP § M.4 M2320(b)(3). Toward this end, offerors were to provide information on all

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