United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1998-02-27 monographic deposited born digital 25 p. GA 1.13:B-278673 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-278673 P0b002ee18fd4a6bd f:278673 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-278673 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-278673 B-278673 Comptroller General Decision 1. Where a potential contractor proposes to meet a solicitation's requirements by offering performance by a government facility, and personnel employed by that facility are involved in evaluating the competing offerors' proposals, it is incumbent on the contracting officer to consider whether similar situations involving contractor organizations would require avoidance, neutralization or mitigation.<p/>2. Contracting officer reasonably determined that government entity's minimal, potential involvement in contract performance did not create a significant conflict of interest requiring avoidance, neutralization or mitigation. <p/>3. Where protester's offer proposed a more established technical approach than awardee's offer, agency's technical evaluation resulting in same technical risk for both proposals is unobjectionable where evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with stated evaluation criteria. Under stated evaluation scheme, technical approach was less important than management of total contract effort, and agency had unilateral authority to select technical approach during contract performance. <p/>4. Since the prime contractor is ultimately responsible for successful performance of contract effort, past performance evaluation reasonably credited offeror who performed as prime contractor with relevant experience even though subcontractor on past contract was responsible for majority of technical work.<p/>5. Where source selection authority reasonably determines that competing proposals are essentially equal in technical merit with little difference in risk, award to offeror presenting more advantageous management proposal and lower evaluated most probable cost is unobjectionable. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-278673/html/GAOREPORTS-B-278673.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-278673/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-278673.pdf GAO/B-278673 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-278673 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-278673; Battelle Memorial Institute, B-278673, February 27, 1998;