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B-275209 1 (1997-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaftu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT 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: JW Associates Inc. File: B-275209 Date: January 30, 1997 Brad Piehl for the protester. Allen W. Smith, Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Source selection cannot be determined to be reasonable where evaluation record contains no meaningful evaluation of offers, but only conclusory statements which do not permit an understanding of the technical differences between proposals, and agency fails to rebut protester's specific allegations that its proposal and that of the awardee were misevaluated. DECISION JW Associates Inc. protests the award of a firm, fixed-price contract to Natural Resources Management Corporation (NRMC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. RM-96-37, issued by the Forest Service for services to complete an environmental impact statement for the Cold Springs Analysis Area on the Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming. JW alleges that the Forest Service's evaluation of proposals was inconsistent with the terms established in the RFP, and that the awardee's proposal did not conform with the RFP's requirements. We sustain the protest. The RFP was issued on August 6, 1996, as a total small business set-aside procurement. Offerors were instructed to submit separate technical and business proposals, to allow technical merit and cost to be considered separately. The RFP at M3 listed the following five evaluation criteria in descending order of importance: qualifications of the firm; qualifications of the personnel assigned to the project; past experience of the firm and its employees assigned to the project; geographic location; and price. The RFP characterized the first three criteria as very important and the remaining two as important. The RFP also listed the type of information that should be provided under each criterion. The RFP at M4 stated 102923

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