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B-291902 1 (2003-04-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyhl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General - -Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Symplicity Corporation File: B-291902 Date: April 29, 2003 Ariel M. Friedler for the protester. Richard P. Rector, Esq., and David E. Fletcher, Esq., Piper Rudnick, for TMP Worldwide, Inc., the intervenor. Sandra Scholar, Esq., and Mark A. Robbins, Esq., Office of Personnel Management, and Kacie A. Haberly, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agencies. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Contracting agency's award of a task order to a firm pursuant to the firm's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract is improper where the agency failed to consider whether the services offered by the firm are covered by its FSS contract, and the record establishes that the firm's quotation was based on providing personnel under labor categories not contained in its FSS contract. 2. Agency's evaluation of quotations submitted in response to a competitive procurement under the Federal Supply Schedule program was unreasonable, where the record reflects that the protester included its price for the performance of a particular task in its quotation while the awardee's quotation used a pricing structure for that task that did not provide a basis for a fair comparison of vendors' prices. DECISION Symplicity Corporation protests the award of a task order to TMP Worldwide, Inc. (d/b/a Monster Government Solutions) under TMP's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. SOLO30000003, issued by the

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