About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-284270 1 (2000-03-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalaf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General 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: Butt Construction Company, Inc. File: B-284270 Date: March 20, 2000 Robert Martin, Esq., Simon, Turnbull & Martin, for the protester. Thomas P. Butler, for Monarch Construction Company, an intervenor. Carl Platt, Esq., Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-Mc Grail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Under solicitation providing for selection of proposal offering the best value to the government, with price and technical factors being equal in weight, agency reasonably selected higher-rated, higher-priced proposal for award where it determined that strength of offeror's experience was significant enough to offset difference in price. 2. Agency's scoring of protester's proposal under similar projects subfactor in solicitation for design and construction work was reasonable where protester did not demonstrate experience with projects with comparable security requirements. DECISION The Butt Construction Company, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Monarch Construction Company under request for proposals (RFP) No. DACA27-99-R-0037, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for design and construction of an addition to, and renovation of, the Avionics Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Butt argues that its proposal should have been selected because it represents the best value to the government. We deny the protest. The RFP, which was issued on September 9, 1999, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract to the offeror whose proposal represented the best value to the government. RFP § 00110, at 4. Proposals were to be evaluated on the basis of price and the following factors, listed in order of importance: qualifications and

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most