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B-202473.2 1 (1982-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkti0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ft 'TI6ECCMPTROLLUE ENERAL CECISKON pr 1F TH E U N ITED S13TATES $WASHINGTON, 0.0. 92041 FILE: B-202473,2 DATFE: December 6, 1982 M-AATTER OF: Analytical Services, Inc.--Reconsideration DIGEBT: Prior decision, sustaining protest against award of professional services contract, is affirmed. Record shows that agency refined definition of professional, not otherwise defined in solicitation, in such a way that it could have had a material impact on the evaluation of proposals, but did not apprise protester of refinement, resulting in unequal competition. Arthur D. Little, Inc. (Little), requests reconsideration of our decision in the matter of Analytical Services, Inc., W-202473, March 9, 1982, 82-1 CPD214. In that decision, we sustained a protest by Analytical Ser- vices, Inc. (Anser), against a Defense Supply Service (DSS) contract awarded to Little for personnel, facilities and equipment to provide quick response analyses concerning the Tri-Services Medical Information Systems under request for proprosals (RFP) No. MDA903-80-R-0129. Anser protested because DSS treated research associates differently in its evaluation of Little's and Anser's proposals. Little considers research associates to be professionals and detailed in its proposal the hours its research associates would provide under the contractl Anser does not consider its research associates to be profes- sionals, did not break out their hours, and included the cost of research associate services in an indirect cost pool covering several employee classifications, including support personnel. DSS evaluated the proposals, in part, by adjusting each offeror's proposed costs and level of effort to the equivalent of the RFP's estimate of 57 staff-years of professional effort to arrive at the cost per hour of pro- fessional effort1 in performing this analysis, DSS applied its own definition of professionals, which included research associates. The RFP did not disclose that the evaluation would be based on this definition of profes- sionals, and we found that DSS failed to apprise Anser

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