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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: Specific Systems, Ltd.
File: B-292087.3
Date: February 20, 2004
Richard J. Vacura, Esq., Holly Emrick Svetz, Esq., Peter C. Sales, Esq., and John R.
Zitko, Esq. Morrison & Foerster, for the protester.
Clarence D. Long, III, Esq., and Paul S. Davison, Esq., Department of the Air Force,
for the agency.
Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Agency reasonably concluded that awardee's proposal was technically acceptable
based on evaluation of 25 of more than 100 technical requirements, where
solicitation did not require evaluation of each and every requirement and only
required offerors to respond to the 25 requirements, and awardee's proposal did not
suggest it would not comply with any of the requirements.
2. Under a solicitation providing for Technically Acceptable-Performance/Price
Tradeoff evaluation scheme, agency's award to lower-priced, lower-rated proposal
is unobjectionable, where agency reasonably concluded that [REDACTED] percent
price differential was not worth marginal differences in performance ratings so as
to justify award to the higher-rated offeror.
DECISION
Specific Systems, Ltd. (SSL) protests the award of a contract to American Turbo
Systems (ATS) under request for proposals (RFP) No. F09603-02-R-70366, issued by
the Department of the Air Force for roof-mounted air conditioner modules (RACM)
that will be used to cool aircraft avionics systems while maintenance personnel work
on aircraft.
We deny the protest.
The RFP, issued April 12, 2002 as a small business set-aside, provided for award of a
fixed-price contract for 3 first-article RACM units and 240 production RACM units,
with three yearly options for additional RACM production units. Award was to be](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptaphm0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)