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B-286112.2 1 (2000-11-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalfh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 . G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability 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: National Systems Management Corporation File: B-286112.2 Date: November 16, 2000 Andrew N. Cook, Esq., and Joel S. Rubinstein, Esq., Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, for the protester. Joseph Boggs, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's evaluation of protester's proposal is unobjectionable where the record establishes that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation factors; protester's mere disagreement with the agency's conclusions does not render the evaluation unreasonable. 2. Under best value solicitation in which technical factors were more important than price, selection on the basis that protester's technical advantage on most important technical factor did not warrant the associated price premium is unobjectionable and consistent with the evaluation scheme. DECISION National Systems Management Corporation protests the award of a contract to Sierra Management and Technologies, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00421-00-R-0116, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Air Warfare Center, as a small business set-aside for technical support services in the acquisition and life-cycle management of aircraft weapons systems and government-furnished equipment. National contends that the agency's technical, management and past performance evaluations were flawed and that the agency improperly altered the relative importance of the stated evaluation factors. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued November 22, 1999, contemplated the award of a time -and-materials indefinite -delivery/indefinite -quantity 12-month contract with

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