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B-402613.2,B-402613.3 1 (2010-07-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbjv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Special Services File: B-402613.2; B-402613.3 Date: July 21, 2010 Adrian H. Garcia for the protester. Antonio T. Robinson, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where award was made consistent with the terms of the solicitation and the agency's mathematical error in calculating vendors' overall point scores did not result in competitive prejudice to the protester. DECISION Special Services, of Los Angeles, California, protests the award of a contract to AG Forest Services, Inc., of Cambria, California, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. AG-0267-S-10-0001 issued by the Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, for national visitor use monitoring at Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued as a commercial item acquisition set-aside for small businesses, sought quotations for surveys of visitor satisfaction and recreational usage to be conducted between May 10, 2010, and September 30, 2010, at Sawtooth National Forest. RFQ, Statement of Work (SOW), at 19. Vendors were informed that award would be made to the vendor whose quotation was found to be most advantageous to the government, price and other factors considered. The RFQ identified the following technical evaluation factors and their relative weights: past performance (50%), technical approach (40%), and experience of key personnel (10%). The technical factors were stated to be, when combined, approximately equal in weight to price. Id. at 32-33. With respect to price, vendors were to submit a single total price for conducting the surveys. Id. at 18.

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