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B-401954.2 1 (2010-08-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadblh0001 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: MCR Federal, LLC File: B-401954.2 Date: August 17, 2010 William L. Walsh, Jr., Esq., J. Scott Hommer III, Esq., Kristen E. Burgers, Esq., Justin J. Wortman, Esq., and Brendan M. Lill, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., Megan Mocho Jeschke, Esq., and Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Scitor Corporation, an intervenor. Jon D. Levin, Esq., and Arthur L. Passar, Esq., Central Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's decision to waive organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is denied where--in accordance with requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulation--waiver request detailing why application of OCI rules would not be in government's interest was approved by appropriate agency official. 2. Evaluation of protester's proposal was unobjectionable where agency reasonably determined that, under technical approach subfactor, proposal lacked detail as to how protester would accomplish three required subtasks, and demonstrated only a limited depth of experience in cost analysis in several required areas, and, under transition plan subfactor, lacked strategy to mitigate risk to ongoing operations if grants of security access were delayed. 3. Protest that agency improperly evaluated awardee's proposal under past performance factor is denied, where agency considered relevance of awardee's and subcontractor's prior contracts, in accordance with solicitation, and reasonably determined that majority of past work was similar to solicitation requirements in size, scope, and complexity. 4. Cost-technical tradeoff was reasonable where source selection official identified technical distinctions between competing proposals and specifically determined that higher-rated proposal represented best value despite higher cost.

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