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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: Beneco Enterprises, Inc.
File: B-283154
Date: October 13, 1999
Clark B. Fetzer, Esq., Kirton & McConkie, for the protester.
Robert J. Marks, Esq., Marks & Golia, for Straub/Pacific LLC, an intervenor.
Daniel J. Dykstra, Jr., Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency.
Christine F. Davis, Esq., and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Where a solicitation provided for multiple awards based on a price/technical
tradeoff, in which technical factors were to be significantly more important than
price, an agency improperly rejected the protester's highest-rated proposal without
considering its significant technical superiority and without comparing it to each of
the three awardees' lower-rated proposals.
2. Where a solicitation stated two price evaluation factors, but did not state their
relative importance, the solicitation gave rise to a presumption that the factors were
approximately equal, and the agency erred in according one of the price factors
virtually no weight in determining each proposal's evaluated, composite price.
DECISION
Beneco Enterprises, Inc. protests the award of three contracts to [Offeror A],
Straub/Pacific LLC, and [Offeror B], under request for proposals (RFP)
No. DACA09-99-R-0006, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for construction
services at installations under the jurisdiction of the Corps's Los Angeles District and
the Bureau of Prisons' Western Region. Beneco protests that the Corps misevaluated
price and did not treat it as significantly less important than technical concerns in
the price/technical tradeoff, as required by the RFP evaluation scheme.
We sustain the protest.
The RFP contemplated the award of three indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity
(IDIQ) contracts, with an overall maximum amount of $90 million for the 36-month](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptajlk0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)