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B-286931 1 (2001-03-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamnx0001 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: Digital Systems Group, Inc. File: B-286931; B-286931.2 Date: March 7, 2001 Robert G. Fryling, Esq., and Edward J. Hoffman, Esq., Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley, for the protester. J. Andrew Jackson, Esq., and Tina D. Reynolds, Esq., Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, for Oracle Corporation, the intervenor. Maria G. Bellizzi, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's allegation that the evaluation of its technical proposal as posing a high risk contradicts the rating of its cost proposal as low risk is denied, where the record shows that technical and cost proposals were rated separately by different evaluation teams which considered different factors, and the different ratings merely reflect the independent judgments of the evaluators and are reasonably supported by the record. 2. Agency was not required to conduct discussions regarding two weaknesses identified in the protester's proposal regarding its past performance since the two weaknesses (which pertained to only 2 out of 20 performance questionnaire items) were not considered significant, and protester's performance record was rated acceptable overall. Agencies are not required to point out every element of acceptable proposals that receive less than the maximum evaluation rating. 3. Protester's allegation that the agency improperly conducted discussions is denied, where the record shows that during several rounds of discussions, the agency reasonably led the protester into areas of its proposal requiring revision, and the protester's failure to make those revisions because it feared jeopardizing its favorable cost rating reflected its own business judgment, rather than any improper agency action. 4. Discussions with offeror whose otherwise acceptable proposal took exception to certain solicitation requirements were unobjectionable where agency reasonably

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