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B-287578.2 1 (2001-10-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamqg0001 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: COBRO Corporation File: B-287578.2 Date: October 15, 2001 Roderic G. Steakley, Esq., and Donald H. Spencer, Esq., Sirote & Permutt, for the protester. Craig E. Hodge, Esq., and Brian E. Toland, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of cost comparison pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-76 is sustained where the solicitation inviting private-sector proposals erroneously required offerors to provide facilities for new inventory rather than making available existing government facilities, without the agency's having a reasonable basis for the restrictive requirement--specifically, without having conducted the study needed to justify the restriction. DECISION COBRO Corporation protests the Army Materiel Command's decision, pursuant to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-76, that it would be more economical to perform T-53 series aircraft engine materiel management functions in-house rather than to contract for these services with COBRO under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAH23-99-R-108. COBRO challenges the adequacy of the agency's comparison of the performance provided under the government's most efficient organization (MEO), as reflected in the government's technical performance plan (TPP), with the performance offered under COBRO'S proposal. COBRO primarily protests the solicitation's storage facilities specification for new inventory, and the concomitant understated inventory storage costs under the adjusted MEO, and also alleges that the agency improperly failed to adjust the MEO costs to account for the technical superiority offered under COBRO's proposal. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND

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