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B-280511.2 1 (1998-10-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahvv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: GTS Duratek, Inc. File: B-280511.2; B-280511.3 Date: October 19, 1998 Mary Ita Snyder, Esq., Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., Richard J. Vacura, Esq., and Carl L. Vacketta, Esq., Piper & Marbury, for the protester. Raymond Fioravanti, Esq., and Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Epstein Becker & Green, for Allied Technology Group, Inc., an intervenor. Elizabeth Rivera, Esq., and Sandra D. Jumper, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq. and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting agency improperly determined that awardee's proposal met the solicitation's minimum technical requirements is sustained where the proposal is ambiguous, at best, with respect to whether it met certain requirements and where the contemporaneous evaluation documentation shows serious concerns regarding the awardee's technical acceptability that were not resolved. 2. Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated offerors' past performance is sustained where the record shows that, with respect to both offerors, the agency ignored relevant information that was personally known to one of the agency evaluators, and where the agency failed to comply with the solicitation's evaluation criteria with respect to the past performance evaluation. DECISION GTS Duratek, Inc. (GTSD)1 protests the award of a contract to Allied Technology Group, Inc. (ATG) under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00604-97-R-1001, issued by the Department of the Navy for the comprehensive reduction and disposal of radioactive waste generated by the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (PHNS) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. GTSD challenges as improper the Navy's conclusion that ATG's proposal met the solicitation's minimum technical requirements; the Navy's 1The entity initially involved in the procurement, Scientific Ecology Group, Inc., was purchased by GTSD prior to the submission of second best and final offers (BAFO). GTSD's Seventh Revised Proposal at 1.

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