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B-270102 1 (1996-02-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadwj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Contrack International, Inc. File: B-270102; B-270102.2 Date: February 8, 1996 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Fettmann & Tolchin, for the protester. John Kennedy for Gulf Housing & Construction, an intervenor. Bruce H. S. Anderson, Esq., and Ronald W. Breen, Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Procuring agency's decision to award contract to lower-priced, lower technically rated offeror was reasonable, where the solicitation made price the most important evaluation factor and the technical differences between the protester's and awardee's proposal were reasonably found not significant and the price difference was considered significant in the circumstances. DECISION Contrack International, Inc. protests the award of a fixed-price contract to Gulf Housing & Construction Co., W.L.L., under request for proposals (RFP) No. DACA78-95-R-0021, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of warehouse and storage facilities in Qatar. Contrack asserts that the award was based on an unreasonable price/technical tradeoff. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation provided that proposals would be evaluated against the following criteria, listed in descending order of importance: price; experience; past performance; and management and execution plan. Experience and past performance were to be point-scored and management/execution plan was to be evaluated on a pass/fail basis. Prices were to be evaluated for reasonableness. The solicitation further provided: Award will be made to the offeror whose proposal contains the combination of those criteria offering the best overall value to the Government. This will be determined by comparing differences in the 44828

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