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B-289863 1 (2002-05-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaody0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: DynCorp International LLC File: B-289863; B-289863.2 Date: May 13, 2002 Carl J. Peckinpaugh, Esq., and Charles S. McNeish, Esq., DynCorp, for the protester. C. Stanley Dees, Esq., Alison L. Doyle, Esq., and David M. Glynn, Esq., McKenna & Cuneo, and Peter H. Johnson, Esq., ITT Defense, for ITT Federal Services International Corporation, an intervenor. Richard C. Bennett, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where source selection authority discounted weaknesses in awardee's proposal identified by technical and cost evaluators, and record does not establish that her disagreement had a rational basis. 2. Protest that agency improperly assigned high performance risk rating to protester's proposal based on potential cost growth, while not assigning a similar rating to awardee's proposal, is sustained where agency had concern about cost growth as to both proposals. DECISION DynCorp International LLC protests the award of a contract to ITT Federal Services International Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. DACA78-01-R-0016, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to obtain base operation services at Camp As Sayliyah, in Qatar. DynCorp maintains that the agency misevaluated cost and technical proposals in making its award decision. We sustain the protest. The RFP sought proposals to provide an array of support services on a cost reimbursable basis for a base year, with four 1-year options. Offerors were advised that the agency would make award to the firm submitting the proposal deemed to offer the best overall value to the government, in light of price and non-price considerations. The RFP included four non-price elements (equal in importance):

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