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B-299433 1 (2007-05-07)

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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: Weidlinger Associates, Inc.

          File:        B-299433; B-299433.2

          Date:        May 7, 2007

          Daniel B. Abrahams, Esq., Howard A. Wolf-Rodda, Esq., and Pamela A. Reynolds,
          Esq., Epstein Becker & Green PC, for the protester.
          Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Philip M. Dearborn, Esq., and Isaias Alba, IV, Esq., Piliero
          Mazza, PLLC, for Merrick & Company, an intervenor.
          Blane B. Lewis, Esq., Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for the agency.
          Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. Agency properly evaluated awardee's technical/management approach as
          exceptional, and protester's as acceptable, where awardee's proposed approach
          offered evaluated strengths that exceeded the solicitation requirements and
          protester's proposed approach met, but did not exceed, the requirements.

          2. Agency properly considered all of the past performance information submitted by
          protester, including information submitted prior to solicitation amendment that
          revised and provided additional detail regarding past performance evaluation
          criteria.

          3. Agency properly concluded that protester's proposal did not offer the lowest
          evaluated cost/price where solicitation provided that the proposed costs for two
          sample tasks would constitute the evaluated cost/price, and protester's proposal for
          the sample tasks offered higher costs than the awardee's proposal.
          DECISION

          Weidlinger Associates, Inc. (WAI) protests the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's
          (DTRA) award of a contract to Merrick & Company for engineering services
          pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. HDTRA2-06-R-0001. WAI protests that
          the agency erred in evaluating various aspects of WAI's proposal.


We deny the protest.

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