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B-287032.5 1 (2001-11-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamoj0001 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: Systems Management, Inc.; Qualimetrics, Inc. File: B-287032.5; B-287032.6 Date: November 19, 2001 Donald J. Walsh, Esq., Scaldara & Potler, for the protesters. William A. Shook, Esq., and Kelley P. Doran, Esq., Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas, Meeds, for Coastal Environmental Systems, the intervenor. John D. Inazu, Esq., Gregory Petkoff, Esq., Richard C. Bean, Esq., and Maj. Marc Fox, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision DIGEST 1. Agency was not required to consider in the past performance evaluation the performance of all proposed subcontractors of the offerors or all references submitted by an offeror. 2. Agency reasonably determined, consistent with the stated evaluation factors, that there were strengths in the awardee's higher-priced technical proposal that warranted the award selection based on a cost/technical tradeoff. DECISION Systems Management, Inc. (SMI) and Qualimetrics, Inc. protest an award of a fixed-price indefinite-quantity contract to Coastal Environmental Systems under request for proposals (RFP) No. F19628-00-R-0032, issued as a small business set-aside by the Department of the Air Force for a fixed-base weather observation system for the 21st century (OS-21 FBS).' The protesters challenge the Air Force's evaluation of their and the awardee's proposals. We deny the protests. ' SMI and Qualimetrics are affiliated companies.

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