General Accounting Office Reinstates
Teledyne - Commodore, LLC Protest
New York, New York, November 25, 1998 - Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc. (ASE:
CXI, CXIW) announced today that the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) has reversed
its September 15, 1998, dismissal and has reinstated the protest lodged by
Teledyne-Commodore LLC, its joint venture with Teledyne Environmental, Inc.
The GAO will now rule on Teledyne-Commodore's protest which stated that there were
major errors in the evaluation process omitting Teledyne-Commodore's technology from the
U.S. Army's Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (ACWA) program technology
demonstration.
One of the errors made in the selection process was the failure to follow ACWA's own
evaluation criteria, including properly calculating "best value" and allowing for a "total
system solution." For example, the company learned at the debriefing that, even though the
evaluation criteria established technical rankings as the most important factors, two of the
three winning companies had the lowest technical evaluations of the original six. In
addition, other errors in the process included failure to properly consider government
financial support for tests carried out by two of the announced winners, and the opportunity
for some bidders to reduce costs after the submission of bids.
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