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B-291206 1 (2002-12-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoil0001 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: Ashland Sales and Service Company File: B-291206 Date: December 5, 2002 Ruth E. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal & Ganister, for the protester. Marc Lamer, Esq., Kostos & Lamer, for Valley Apparel, LLC, an intervenor. Daniel Barry, Esq., and John P. Patkus, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's offered product demonstration model of jacket did not comply with unambiguous purchase description requirement that bartack stitches go through all plies of a jacket. 2. Under a solicitation where technical quality was more important than price, the source selection authority's (SSA) price/technical tradeoff determination selecting a slightly lower-priced proposal over a slightly higher-rated proposal was unreasonable, where the SSA relied on incorrect evaluation information that made the technical superiority of the higher-rated proposal appear significantly smaller than it actually was. DECISION Ashland Sales and Service Company protests an award to Valley Apparel, LLC, under solicitation No. SPO100-00-R-4130, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Defense Supply Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Navy shipboard jackets. We sustain the protest. The solicitation, issued as a total set-aside for small business concerns on November 2, 2000, contemplated the award of an indefinite-quantity contract for 1 year with 2 option years. Award was to be made to the offeror whose proposal was most advantageous to the government, considering price and technical quality. Technical quality was more important than price. The solicitation listed the technical evaluation factors in descending order of importance: (1) product demonstration model (PDM), (2) experience/past performance, (3) manufacturing

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