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B-270341.2 1 (1996-03-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadyb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DECISION FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: SRS Technologies File: B-270341.2 Date: March 1, 1996 Alan M. Grayson, for the protester. J. Scott Merrell, for Research Triangle Institute, an intervenor. Terrence W. Carlson, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. Peter A. Iannicelli, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq.,Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of proposals for technical support services is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation scheme. 2. Agency conducted meaningful discussions where it reasonably led the protester into area of its proposal that required amplification or clarification. 3. Protest that contracting agency should have disqualified the awardee because of organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the awardee certified that it did not have any conflicts of interest and provided a plan for reporting and mitigating any potential conflicts, and the contracting officer reasonably determined that the awardee's mitigation plan was a good one and that the awardee had met its conflict of interest obligations under past contracts with the agency. DECISION SRS Technologies protests the award of a technical support services contract to Research Triangle Institute (RTI) by the Department of Transportation (DOT) pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. DTOS59-95-R-00006. The protester alleges that the agency did not evaluate technical proposals and conduct a cost/technical tradeoff in accord with the RFP's evaluation scheme, did not hold meaningful discussions, and improperly accepted RTI's offer even though the firm has organizational conflicts of interest. We deny the protest.' 'The protester raised a host of arguments in support of these allegations. We have considered all of SRS's arguments and find no basis for sustaining the protest. We will discuss only the most noteworthy arguments in this decision.

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