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B-407422 1 (2012-11-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadphe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A o Comptroller General Acc ou'tabiii * intgrty , ReiiabiIkty of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Bernardo Technical Services, Inc. File: B-407422 Date: November 13, 2012 Laura Barish, for the protester. Lisa L. Baker, Esq., United States Marine Corps, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency's best value trade off was unreasonable is denied where there is no merit to the protester's assertion that the best value to the government could be determined by an algebraic formula. DECISION Bernardo Technical Services, Inc. (BTSI), of San Diego, California, protests the award of a contract to Gemini 3 Group, Inc. (Gemini 3), of Stafford, Virginia, by the U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps System Command, under request for proposals (RFP) No. M67854-12-R-0510 for technical, analytical, and programmatic support. The protester asserts that the agency's best value tradeoff was unreasonable. We deny the protest. As relevant to this protest, the RFP advised all offerors that award would be made to the firm whose proposal was determined to offer the best value to the agency, considering technical, past performance, and price. RFP at unnumbered page 11. Technical and past performance, when combined, were equal to price. Id. at unnumbered page 13. The agency received proposals from five offerors, including the protester and the awardee. The table below summarizes the agency's evaluation of BTSI's and Gemini 3's proposals.