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B-292387,B-292387.3 1 (2003-09-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyki0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General . .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting 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: Carmon Construction, Inc. File: B-292387; B-292387.3 Date: September 5, 2003 David J. Taylor, Esq., Tighe Patton Armstrong Teasdale, for the protester. Gary L. Brooks, Esq., National Archives and Records Administration, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly awarded contract to large business offeror with higher evaluated price than that of protester, a Historically Underutilized Business Zone small business concern, where request for proposals provided for award on a best value basis and agency determined that technical superiority of awardee's proposal outweighed price differential. DECISION Carmon Construction, Inc., a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small business concern, protests the award of a contract to Batson-Cook Company, a large business, under request for proposals (RFP) No. NAMAO2SEM0009, issued by the National Archives and Records Administration for construction of an archives facility in Morrow, Georgia. Carmon contends that its offer should have been selected for award because it represents no significant risk to the government and is lower in price than Batson-Cook's after application of the 10 percent HUBZone price evaluation preference provided for in the RFP. We deny the protest. The RFP, which was issued on an unrestricted basis on November 15, 2002, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract to the offeror whose proposal represented the best value to the government, with technical factors significantly more important than price. Technical factors and their corresponding weights were as follows: experience (20 percent), past performance (20 percent), key personnel (20 percent), management plan and schedule (35 percent), and subcontracting plan (5 percent).

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