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B-287013 1 (2001-03-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamoe0001 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: Special Operations Group, Inc. File: B-287013; B-287013.2 Date: March 30, 2001 J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon & Tolle, for the protester. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Glenn G.Wolcott, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency improperly awarded a contract on the basis of the lowest priced proposal where the proposal failed to comply with a material solicitation requirement. 2. Where solicitation provided for contract award on the basis of a cost-technical tradeoff emphasizing technical merit over cost/price, it was improper for the agency to evaluate technical proposals on a pass/fail basis and then make its source selection decision on the basis of what it perceived to be the lowest priced, technically acceptable proposal without advising offerors of this change in the source selection criteria. DECISION Special Operations Group, Inc. (SOGI) protests the Department of State's award of a contract to Triumph Technologies, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. S-LMAQM-00-R-0079 to provide personnel to safeguard classified material while that material is in-transit to diplomatic missions. SOGI protests that Triumph's proposal failed to comply with the solicitation requirements, and that the agency failed to make its source selection decision on the basis of the criteria specified in the solicitation. We sustain the protest.

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