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A G A O Comptroller General
. Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability 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: Bernard Cap Company, Inc.
File: B-297168
Date: November 8, 2005
Scott P. Pavelle, Esq., for the protester.
Jeffrey P. Hildebrant, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon,
Hildebrant & Tolle, for Kingform Cap Company, Inc., an intervenor.
Isaac Johnson, Jr., Esq., Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast
Guard, for the agency.
Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest is denied where the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal was
reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and where the
solicitation provided that the technical evaluation factors, when combined, were
significantly more important than price, the agency reasonably selected for award a
firm submitting a higher technically rated, higher priced proposal.
DECISION
Bernard Cap Company, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Kingform Cap
Company, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSCG23-04-R-PUD626, issued
by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard (USCG),
Uniform Distribution Center, for quantities of officer and enlisted combination
hats/caps and covers for males and females. Bernard, which submitted a
significantly lower priced proposal for the male items only, challenges the evaluation
of its proposal and the agency's best value determination that resulted in the award
to Kingform, which submitted a higher technically rated, higher priced proposal for
the male items.
We deny the protest.
The RFP was issued on December 17, 2004 as a small business set-aside and
stated that the agency reserve[d] the right to award multiple ... fixed[-]price
Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite [-] Quantity contracts for one, varied or all items listed
in the schedule for a 5-year period to the offeror(s) whose proposal(s) represented](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptaqzg0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)