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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: Fiserv NCSI, Inc.
File: B-293005
Date: January 15, 2004
Michael R. Charness, Esq., and Robert J. Rothwell, Esq., Vinson & Elkins, for the
protester.
Carl L. Vacketta, Esq., and Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., Piper Rudnick, for Covansys
Corporation, an intervenor.
Leigh M. Hoburg, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, 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 procurement for fixed-unit-price contract, agency reasonably determined that
awardee's proposed prices were realistic where evaluation record reflects agency's
thorough consideration of awardee's proposed technical approach that reasonably
supported the agency's conclusion that awardee's approach would meet the
solicitation requirements, and agency further examined the individual elements of
awardee's proposed prices, including data related to direct labor, labor overhead,
and other direct and indirect costs.
2. Where record establishes that agency reasonably compared protester's [deleted]
approach, which necessitated a significantly higher price than the price proposed by
awardee in connection with its technology-intensive approach, and excluded
protester's proposal from the competitive range on the basis that, in order to be
eligible for award, protester would have to completely revise its proposed technical
approach, errors or inaccuracies in the government estimate are immaterial and do
not provide a basis for sustaining the protest.
DECISION
Fiserv NCSI, Inc. (NCSI) protests the Department of Homeland Security, Federal
Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) exclusion of NCSI's proposal from the
competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. EMW-2003-RP-0030 to](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptapiz0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)