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G A 0 Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States
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: TyeCom, Inc.
File: B-287321.3; B-287321.4
Date: April 29, 2002
Howard Stanislawski, Esq., and Richard L. Larach, Esq., Sidley Austin Brown &
Wood, for the protester.
Moses Harvin, for American Services Technology, Inc., an intervenor.
Joseph A. Lenhard, Esq., and Timothy Fischer, Esq., Department of Energy, 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 against proposal reevaluation is denied where the reevaluation was
performed by the agency in response to, and consistent with, corrective action
suggested during alternate dispute resolution conducted in conjunction with a
predecessor protest of the same procurement to the General Accounting Office, and
the protester has not provided any persuasive evidence that the reevaluation was
improper or unreasonable.
DECISION
TyeCom, Inc. protests the award of a contract to American Services Technology,
Inc. (ASTI), under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RP09-00SR22183, issued by
the Department of Energy (DOE) as an 8(a) small disadvantaged business (SDB)
set-aside for administrative facility support services at DOE's Savannah River
Operations Office. TyeCom contends that the agency's most recent technical and
cost evaluation is fatally flawed. Protest at 1.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
This procurement has had a protracted history, commencing with DOE's issuance of
the solicitation on March 18, 2000. On February 15, 2001, the agency initially
selected [deleted] proposal for award from amongst a final competitive range
consisting of three proposals, the others of which were the TyeCom and ASTI](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptaoau0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)