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B-296972 1 (2005-11-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqyt0001 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: Standard Communications, Inc. File: B-296972 Date: November 1, 2005 David M. Nadler, Esq., and Joseph R. Berger, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, for the protester. James J. Regan, Esq., and Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for dNovus RDI, an intervenor. Maj. Jeffrey Branstetter, and David L. Bell, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably did not evaluate protester's past performance as justifying high confidence rating, despite generally positive feedback from references, where protester's past contracts were reasonably found to be only partially relevant in size and scope to work to be performed in statement of work. 2. Agency reasonably evaluated protester's proposal's technical risk as high where its proposed labor rates and overall price were significantly below agency's independent estimate and reasonably were found to threaten its ability to hire and retain incumbent personnel. 3. Where protester's neutral past performance rating was not considered a significant weakness, and nature and ultimate relevance of protester's past performance submissions were clear, agency was not required to conduct discussions on past performance. 4. Price-technical tradeoff was reasonable where source selection official identified technical distinctions between competing proposals and specifically determined that higher technically rated proposal represented best value despite higher cost.

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