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B-284155.3 1 (2001-03-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamkx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity * Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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: WorldTravelService File: B-284155.3 Date: March 26, 2001 Barry Roberts, Esq., and Brian J. Hundertmark, Esq., Roberts & Hundertmark, and Paul M. Tschirhart, Esq., Sher & Blackwell, for the protester. Mark Pestronk, The Travel Law Firm, for Omega World Travel, Inc., an intervenor. Terrence J. Tychan and Michael Colvin, Department of Health & Human Services, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. In solicitation for fixed-price travel services, protest that awardee's price is unreasonably low and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the requirement is denied where solicitation did not provide for realism analysis. 2. Protest that contracting agency conducted inadequate and unequal discussions as between the protester and awardee is denied where the record shows that the agency properly tailored discussions to each offeror, and provided each the same opportunity to revise its proposal. 3. Fact that past performance evaluation does not specifically refer to relative risk assessment contemplated by evaluation criteria is unobjectionable, since relative risk assessment was implicit in agency's scoring of each proposal, and protester has not shown that awardee's past performance record indicates significant performance risk. DECISION WorldTravelService (WTS) protests the award of a contract to Omega World Travel, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 263-99-P(BH)-0032, issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, for travel services. WTS challenges the evaluation, the adequacy of discussions and the price/technical tradeoff. We deny the protest.

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