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 2003-09-10 monographic deposited born digital 11 p. GA 1.13:B-292403 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292403 P0b002ee18fd46257 f:292403 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-292403 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-292403 B-292403 Comptroller General Decision 1. Under unrestricted solicitation that called for full and open competition with no provision for award under small business innovation research (SBIR) program or for any other small business preference, there was no basis for agency to afford special assistance or differential treatment to small business offeror, notwithstanding offeror*s erroneous assertion in its proposal that it could be awarded an SBIR contract for the requirement. 2. Agency reasonably evaluated protester*s past performance as neutral under subcontractor management subfactor where protester lacked relevant subcontractor management experience; the proposed large business subcontractor*s past performance record in managing subcontractors cannot reasonably be credited to small business protester as the prime contractor, notwithstanding alleged mentor/protege agreement between the two, since the evaluation subfactor is intended to assess the prime contractor*s ability to supervise and control that mentor*s performance as a major subcontractor. 3. Agency reasonably determined that the significantly reduced technical and past performance risk offered by technically superior proposal warranted the payment of the associated evaluated cost premium under a solicitation for a cost reimbursement contract for a complex system development program which provided that the technical factors were significantly more important than cost. 4. Award determination, as well as underlying cost/technical tradeoff vis-`a-vis protester, is unobjectionable even though focused on comparison between awardee*s proposal and that of the next highest technically rated proposal where, notwithstanding protester*s low evaluated cost, record establishes propriety of evaluated technical superiority of awardee*s proposal, and the protester*s proposal was reasonably evaluated as a distant third. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292403/html/GAOREPORTS-B-292403.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292403/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-292403.pdf GAO/B-292403 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292403 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-292403; Accurate Automation Corporation, B-292403; B-292403.2, September 10, 2003;