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B-299317.4 1 (2007-06-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaudy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Department of the Army--Reconsideration File: B-299317.4 Date: June 8, 2007 DECISION The Department of the Army asks that we reconsider our decision in L-3 Communications Titan Corp., B-299317 et al., Mar. 29, 2007, 2007 CPD -, in which we sustained L-3's protest of the award of a contract to Global Linguist Solutions, LLC (GLS) under request for proposals (RFP) No. W911W4-05-R-0001 to provide interpretation and translation services for the U.S. armed forces in Iraq. We deny the reconsideration request. The RFP provided for award of an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract for a 5-year period, during which individual task orders would be issued, and advised offerors that award would be based on the proposal offering the best value to the government considering the following evaluation factors: management, past performance, and cost. With regard to the most important factor, management, the solicitation identified the following subfactors: fill rate, experience, sustainment, staffing plan, transition plan and small business participation. In our decision, we found unreasonable the Army's evaluation under the fill rate and experience subfactors, and that the evaluation scheme for transition plans did not support meaningful comparison and discrimination between competing proposals. In requesting reconsideration, the Army takes issue with our findings in all three respects. Fill Rate Subfactor The RFP identified the linguist staffing levels that would be required under the first task order (task order 1), and provided that various aspects of the offerors' proposals would be evaluated against the task order 1 requirements. For that task order, the solicitation required offerors to propose enough personnel to fill 7,217 full- time equivalent (FTE) linguist positions, and defined an FTE as follows: an FTE year will consist of a total of 3,744 total productive hours (12 hours a day; 6 days a