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B-400406,B-400406.2 1 (2008-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadatz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 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: SPAAN Tech, Inc. File: B-400406; B-400406.2 Date: October 28, 2008 Marc Van Allen, Esq., Kathy C. Weinberg, Esq., and Damien C. Specht, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the protester. H. Jack Shearer, Esq., Kimberly M. Donham, Esq., and Young H. Cho, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's determination to not include protester's lower technically rated, higher cost proposal in the competitive range--even though agency determined that two of the three higher technically rated offerors whose proposals were included in the range did not fully substantiate their indirect rates--was unobjectionable where agency otherwise reasonably concluded that protester's proposal was not among the most highly rated offers. DECISION SPAAN Tech, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposal (RFP) No. DE-RPO2-08CH 11469, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) for technical support services. We deny the protest. The RFP provided for the award of a cost-plus-award-fee contract for technical support services with respect to such areas as the environment, safety, health facilities, and project and program management. The solicitation stated that award would be made on a best value basis, considering cost and the following weighted technical evaluation factors: technical understanding/approach (25%); management approach (30%); personnel qualifications/availability (25%); relevant corporate experience (10%); and past performance (10%). RFP §§ M.2, M.3. The technical evaluation factors were stated to be significantly more important than cost.

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