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B-405292.3 1 (2012-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoxq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General _Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision [ap roved for public release. Matter of: Planned Systems International, Inc. File: B-405292.3 Date: July 10, 2012 Christian B. Nagel, Esq., Fluet Huber & Hoang, PLLC, for the protester. Gregory S. Jacobs, Esq., Joelle E.K. Laszlo, Esq., and Leigh T. Hansson, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for Luke & Associates, an intervenor. Behn M. Kelly, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably evaluated offerors' fixed prices by performing comparisons of proposed individual labor rates and total evaluated prices, consistent with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the provisions of the solicitation, and was not required to consider protester's historic pricing in performing the evaluation. 2. Protester's assertion that it should have received the highest possible past performance rating will not be considered where protester's evaluated price was more than 19 percent higher than that of the highest-priced awardee, and the solicitation expressly provided that the agency would pay no greater than a 10 percent price premium for a proposal with the highest past performance rating. 3. Where, after initially announcing contract awards, the agency corrected the past performance rating of another offeror, leading to an additional award to that offeror on the basis if its second-lowest price, the agency was not required to further expand the pool of awardees to include the protester's highest-priced proposal. DECISION Planned Systems International, Inc. (PSI), of Columbia, Maryland, protests the Department of the Air Force's decision not to award a contract to PSI pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8053-1 1 -R-0001 to provide medical advisory and assistance services. PSI asserts that the agency's source selection decision reflected various flaws, including the agency's alleged failure to properly evaluate proposals with regard to price and past performance.

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