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B-289863.4 1 (2002-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaodx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: ITT Federal Services International Corporation File: B-289863.4; B-289863.6; B-289863.7; B-289863.8 Date: December 16, 2002 Kevin Connelly, Esq., and Joseph J. Dyer, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw, for the protester. Carl J. Peckinpaugh, Esq., and Charles S. McNeish, Esq., for DynCorp International, LLC, an intervenor. Richard C. Bennett, Esq., and Nancy J. Williams, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's cost realism evaluation is sustained where record shows that evaluation contained errors that, if corrected, could significantly reduce the amount of awardee's cost advantage, and also could affect the agency's technical evaluation of proposals, so that the award decision could be different. DECISION ITT Federal Services International Corporation protests the award of a contract to DynCorp International, LLC under request for proposals (RFP) No. DACA78-01-R- 0016, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to acquire base operations and security services at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar. ITT argues that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND This is the second award decision that has been protested to our Office. In an earlier decision, DynCorp Int'l, LLC, B-289863, B-289863.2, May 13, 2002, 2002 CPD 83, aff d, DynCorp Int'l, LLC--Recon., B-289863.3, July 1, 2002, we sustained a protest filed by DynCorp against the award of this contract to ITT, finding that the agency had made errors in evaluating proposals and selecting ITT for award. We recommended that the agency amend the solicitation, obtain and evaluate revised proposals and make a new source selection decision, and terminate the contract

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