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B-285485 1 (2000-08-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaldp0001 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: DUCOM, Inc. File: B-285485 Date: August 23, 2000 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the protester. Cyrus E. Phillips, IV, Esq., for Z Systems Corporation, an intervenor. Joshua A. Kranzberg, Esq., and Wendy S. Saigh, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated protester's technical proposal based on unstated evaluation factors and failed to evaluate offers on a common basis or otherwise unreasonably evaluated proposals is denied where record shows the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation's evaluation factors. DECISION DUCOM, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Z Systems Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAE07-00-R-MO1O, issued by the Department of the Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) to acquire Total Package Fielding (TPF) support services. DUCOM primarily argues that the agency improperly evaluated its technical proposal based on unstated evaluation factors and failed to evaluate offers on a common basis. We deny the protest. New weapons systems are accompanied by logistics support, such as auxiliary vehicles, spare parts, test and support equipment, vehicles, and technical manuals. The range and quantity of this logistics support increases the difficulty of getting that support to the user unit at the same time as the weapons systems. RFP § C-2-1. The TPF process minimizes the workload of the unit receiving the new weapons system by gathering the end item and all required support into a single package. This process is governed by Army Regulation AR-700-142, Materiel Release, Fielding and

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