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B-296094 1 (2005-05-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqwg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Mathews Associates, Inc. File: B-296094 Date: May 26, 2005 William M. Weisberg, Esq., Sullivan & Worcester LLP, for the protester. Vera Meza, Esq. and John J. Reynolds, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where agency report demonstrates that evaluation was reasonable, and protester has not rebutted agency's position. DECISION Mathews Associates, Inc. (MAI) protests the award of contracts to Ultralife Batteries, Inc. and Bren-Tronics, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. W15P7T-05-R-COO1, issued by the Department of the Army for BA-5347/U lithium manganese dioxide batteries. MAI challenges the evaluation of its proposal, and also asserts that the award was improper because the batteries submitted by the awardees failed a required capacity test. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award, on a best value basis, of up to two contracts, and advised offerors that the evaluation would be based on price and two non-price criteria--a technical and a performance risk factor. The technical factor was significantly more important than the performance risk factor, which in turn was slightly more important than price. There were three technical subfactors: battery performance, battery safety and production. Offerors were required to submit battery samples, which were to be subjected to three capacity tests, the results of which were to be considered under the battery performance subfactor. Only proposals receiving at least an acceptable rating under each of the technical subfactors would be considered for award.

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