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B-283727.3 1 (2001-08-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamkw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Aberdeen Technical Services--Modification of Recommendation File: B-283727.3 Date: August 22, 2001 Ruth Y. Morrel, Esq., DynCorp, for the protester. Vera Meza, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST General Accounting Office modifies recommendation to include reimbursement of protester's costs of preparing its proposal where agency canceled the solicitation, thus depriving protester of opportunity to compete. DECISION Aberdeen Technical Services (ATS) requests that we recommend that the Department of the Army reimburse ATS for costs the firm incurred in preparing its proposal in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAD05-98-R-0565. The Army issued the RFP on August 4, 1998, as part of a cost comparison pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-76 to determine whether it would be more economical to manage and operate base industrial operations in-house at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, rather than contract for these services. Of the three private sector proposals submitted in response to the RFP, the Army concluded that ATS's proposal offered the best value to the government. Ultimately, the Army concluded that performance in-house would be less expensive than awarding a contract to ATS. ATS filed a protest with our Office challenging the agency's decision. We sustained ATS's protest on several grounds, and recommended that the Army either revise the in-house cost estimate and ATS's offer in accordance with the findings in our decision and conduct a new cost comparison, or revise the RFP, reopen the competition among the private sector offerors, and then conduct a new cost comparison. Aberdeen Tech. Servs., Inc., B-283727.2, Feb. 22, 2000, 2000 CPD 46.