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B-283218 1 (1999-10-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajlp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Omega World Travel, Inc. File: B-283218 Date: October 22, 1999 Barry Roberts, Esq., and Brian J. Hundertmark, Esq., Roberts & Hundertmark, for the protester. James H. Roberts, III, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, for Sato Travel, an intervenor. John E. Lariccia, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Source selection official reasonably determined that proposal rated blue/excellent by four evaluators and green/acceptable by one evaluator should be rated blue/excellent overall for that evaluation factor; the overriding concern in the evaluation process is that the final score assigned accurately reflect the actual merits of the proposals, not that it be mechanically traceable back to the subjective scores initially given by the individual evaluators. 2. Where request for proposals provided for award without discussions, agency's awareness of possible mistake in protester's proposal pricing did not give rise to an obligation to conduct discussions to permit correction of mistake where the agency had received a technically equal, lower-priced proposal, and thus discussions were not otherwise necessary. DECISION Omega World Travel, Inc. protests the Department of the Air Force's award of a contract for commercial travel services to Sato Travel under request for proposals (RFP) No. F62321-99-R0035. Omega alleges that there were improprieties in the agency's evaluation of the proposals. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on April 9, 1999, contemplated the award of a 1-year contract with four 1-year options for travel services to be provided at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. The RFP provided, in section M, that the award would be made on the basis

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