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B-299904.2 1 (2007-09-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiww0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I A 0 Comptroller General K, E 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: Zolon Tech, Inc. File: B-299904.2 Date: September 18, 2007 J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon & Tolle, LLP, for the protester. John E. Jensen, Esq., Daniel S. Herzfeld, Esq., and Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Vistronix, Inc., an intervenor. Heather M. Self, Esq., Department of Agriculture, 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. Agency reasonably assessed weaknesses in evaluation of protester's experience as to core technology, where firm intended to rely on experienced consultant instead of contractor personnel, and as to management system, where firm's initial quotation did not address the system and oral presentation/revised quotation included only limited reference to it. 2. Price evaluation that determined protester's prices to be unrealistic was unobjectionable where based on both firm's low revised draft task order price, as compared to government estimate, and sample of firm's loaded labor rates, which were significantly lower than those of incumbent contractors. 3. Agency determination that small business's unrealistically low price represented high risk, and decision to make award to vendor with technically superior, higher- priced quotation were part of a comparative best value evaluation, not a responsibility determination requiring referral to the Small Business Administration. DECISION Zolon Tech, Inc. protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Vistronix, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. AG-3144-S-07-0012, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), for information systems development, support, and maintenance services. Zolon challenges the technical and price evaluations and the risk determination.

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