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B-288998.4 1 (2002-03-22)

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          G     A    0                                                  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: WPI

          File:        B-288998.4; B-288998.5

          Date:        March 22, 2002

          Michael W. Clancy, Esq., and Frank K. Peterson, Esq., Holland & Knight, for the
          protester.
          Rand L. Allen, Esq., Philip J. Davis, Esq., and Timothy W. Staley, Esq., Wiley Rein &
          Fielding, for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc., an intervenor.
          Carl J. Peckinpaugh, Esq., and Charles S. McNeish, Esq., for DynCorp Information &
          Enterprise Technology, Inc., an intervenor.
          Ronald G. Allen, Esq., Lt. Col. John M. Smith, and Clarence D. Long, III, Esq.,
          Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
          Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. Agency reasonably determined that awardees' higher levels of resources available
          to perform the contract constituted meaningful benefits to the agency where the
          solicitation provided that an offeror's technical capacity to respond to workload
          requirements around the world was the most important consideration under two of
          three technical evaluation factors.

          2. Protester's challenge to the manner in which the agency evaluated offerors'
          costs/prices is not timely filed, where solicitation unambiguously advised offerors of
          the agency's intended method of evaluation, and the protester responded to the
          solicitation without objection.

          3. Where solicitation established cost/price as the least important evaluation factor
          and provided that it was significantly less important than the combined technical
          factors, we find no basis to question the agency's judgment that the awardees'

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