About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-286336 1 (2001-01-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptammc0001 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: Hernandez Engineering, Inc.; ASR International Corporation File: B-286336; B-286336.2; B-286336.3; B-286336.4 Date: January 2, 2001 Richard J. Webber, Esq., and David A. Vogel, Esq., Arent Fox, for Hernandez Engineering, Inc., and Anthony B. Barton, Esq., Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn, for ASR International Corporation, the protesters. Alan M. Grayson, Esq., Ira E. Hoffman, Esq., and Mark R. Mann, Esq., Grayson and Kubli, for SRS Information Services, an intervenor. Bernard J. Roan, Esq., National Aeronautics & Space Administration, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated awardee's past performance as very good is denied, even though the agency considered references of the awardee's parent corporation in the past performance evaluation, where the solicitation did not require any specific minimum of reference questionnaire responses and the agency received a reference questionnaire response regarding a comparable contract performed by the awardee rating its performance as very good to excellent. 2. Consistent with the solicitation's evaluation factors, agency reasonably found significant strengths in awardee's proposal that justified a technical rating that was significantly higher than that of protesters. 3. In calculating probable costs of protesters' proposals, agency reasonably upwardly adjusted their costs where protesters proposed less staffing than forecasted in the solicitation for some of the required services without adequate explanations of the methodology used to develop the proposed lesser levels of staffing and/or accounting for the enhanced levels of services contemplated by the solicitation.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most