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B-288852.2 1 (2002-05-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaobo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: A&D Fire Protection Inc. File: B-288852.2 Date: May 2, 2002 Andrew R. Otero for the protester. Patrick J. LaMoure, Esq., and Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST An agency's selection of the higher-priced awardee based upon a cost/technical tradeoff was unsupported by the record, where the agency's tradeoff analysis was primarily based upon the agency's erroneous judgment that the awardee had offered an accelerated performance schedule (when in fact the awardee had promised only to perform the required contract schedule), which outweighed the protester's price advantage. DECISION A&D Fire Protection Inc. protests the award of a contract to Stronghold Engineering, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 101-AC-0189, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for design and construction services at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California. We sustain the protest. The RFP was restricted to firms certified under the Small Business Administration's section 8(a) set-aside program and provided for the award of a fixed-price contract for the design and construction of columbarium niches at the National Cemetery in San Diego, California. Offerors were informed that award would be made on the basis of both cost and technical considerations most advantageous to the government. The RFP listed the following evaluation factors, in descending order 1 Columbarium niches are recesses designed to contain urns of ashes.

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