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B-297413 1 (2006-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasml0001 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: Puglia Engineering of California, Inc. File: B-297413; B-297413.2; B-297413.3 Date: January 20, 2006 Mark G. Jackson, Esq., Derek D. Crick, Esq., and G. Matthew Koehl, Esq., Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, for the protester. C. Scott Penner, Esq., John C. Dippold, Esq., and Sandip Soli, Esq., Carney Badley Spellman, PS, for Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation, an intervenor. Talbot J. Nicholas, II, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency's evaluation of proposals was unreasonable and inconsistent with the stated evaluation criteria is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable, and that the solicitation's evaluation criteria were fairly and consistently applied in the agency's assessment of both the protester's and the awardee's proposals. 2. Source selection authority (SSA) performed a reasonable price/technical tradeoff in determining that the awardee's proposal represented the best value, where the SSA's judgment, based upon the results of a reasonable, documented technical evaluation, demonstrates the SSA's understanding of the evaluated strengths and weaknesses of the respective proposals, and shows a reasonable weighing of the offerors' respective technical and price advantages consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. DECISION Puglia Engineering of California, Inc. (PECI) protests the award of a contract to Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSCG85- 05-R-625306, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific, for dockside maintenance services. PECI argues that the agency conducted a flawed evaluation of proposals and failed to perform a reasonable price realism evaluation; PECI contends that the selection decision was flawed for these reasons, and was improper on its face.

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