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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: National City Bank of Indiana
File: B-287608.3
Date: August 7, 2002
Rand Allen, Esq., Philip J. Davis, Esq., Timothy W. Staley, Esq., and Derek A. Yeo,
Esq., Wiley Rein & Fielding, for the protester.
Eugene D. Gulland, Esq., Alan A. Pemberton, Esq., Jennifer L. Plitsch, Esq., and
Timothy J. Keefer, Esq., Covington & Burling, for Bank of America, an intervenor.
John F. Ruoff, Esq., Defense Finance and Accounting Service, 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. In implementing prior GAO recommendation to amend solicitation and request
revised proposals, agency properly permitted awardee to change various portions of
its cost and technical proposal where solicitation amendment specifically advised all
offerors that they were permitted to change any or all portions of their proposal.
2. In performing past performance evaluation, agency reasonably declined to
attribute the past performance of an offeror's affiliate to that offeror where, based on
the agency's independent research, it determined that the affiliate was a separate
legal entity, that the two entities had substantially differing workforces,
management, and facilities, and that the offeror's affiliate was not likely to be
involved in performing the contract being competed.
3. Agency's cost realism analysis of awardee's proposed staffing costs is not
supported where the record is devoid of any meaningful explanation from the agency
evaluators of their basis for accepting as realistic the awardee's proposed [deleted]
reduced staffing levels.
DECISION
National City Bank of Indiana (NCB) protests the award of a contract by the
Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), to
Bank of America (BOA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. MDA210-00-R-CPB3
to provide banking services for United States personnel stationed overseas. NCB
protests that DFAS improperly permitted BOA to revise its proposal, improperly](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptaoaw0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)