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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: SPAAN Tech, Inc.
File: B-296305
Date: July 14, 2005
Eric J. Marcotte, Esq., and Nathan C. Guerrero, Esq., Winston & Strawn LLP, for the
protester.
Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., Joseph A. Lenhard, Esq., and Nancy Toppetta, Esq.,
Department of Energy, for the agency.
Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency's determination that protester's proposal was essentially equal to awardee's
lower cost proposal has not been shown to be unreasonable.
DECISION
SPAAN Tech, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Performance Results
Corporation (PRC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RP26-03NT41819,
issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) for administrative support services.
SPAAN Tech contends that the evaluation of its proposal and the source selection
decision were improper.
We deny the protest.
DOE issued the RFP as a competitive 8(a) set-aside to acquire administrative
program support services for DOE's National Energy Technology Library (NETL) at
the Morgantown, West Virginia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania facilities. The services
to be provided under this contract include management systems support services,
records management support services, and library support services. The solicitation
anticipated the award of a cost-plus-award-fee, task-order contract for a base period
of 3 years with two 1-year options.
The RFP stated the [s] election of the best value to the Government will be achieved
through a process of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each Offeror's
proposal in accordance with the evaluation criteria stated in the solicitation.
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