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B-311126 1 (2008-04-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavzd0001 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: Savannah River Alliance, LLC File: B-311126, B-311126.2, B-311126.3, B-311126.4 Date: April 25, 2008 Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Tammy Hopkins, Esq., Pamela A. Reynolds, Esq., and Amy T. Kingston, Esq., Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, LLP, for the protester. James J. McCullough, Esq., Deneen J. Melander, Esq., Steven A. Alerding, Esq., and William S. Speros, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC, an intervenor. H. Jack Shearer, Esq., Charmaine A. Howson, Esq., Timothy P. Fischer, Esq., and Jeffrey Galan, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's selection of higher-priced, higher-rated proposal for award is reasonable, where the key discriminator between proposals was under the key personnel factor, which was one of the most heavily weighted factors in the evaluation and was critical to successful performance, and where the agency reasonably concluded that awardee's superior key personnel were worth the additional price; protester's disagreement with the evaluation of multiple other factors and subfactors does not render the evaluation unreasonable. 2. Allegation that a key personnel reference had a personal conflict of interest that tainted the evaluation of key personnel is denied, where the reference was provided by the offeror and did not have an official role in the procurement, and the information provided by the reference had no impact on the evaluation. 3. Allegation that organizational conflicts of interest exist due to the employment of several of the awardee's key personnel is denied, where any conflict, if it exists, is personal to the employees, and not the organization, and is too speculative to impute to their employers.

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