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B-292865,B-292865.2 1 (2003-12-10)

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         G     A     0Comptroller General
........ inAccountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States General Accounting 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:  Career Quest, Inc.

          File:       B-292865; B-292865.2

          Date:       December   10, 2003

          Darcy V. Hennessy, Esq., and Leslie Anne Bailey, Esq., Moore Hennessy & Freeman,
          for the protester.
          Catherine G. Powers, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency.
          Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
          participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. In evaluation under experience factor, where offerors were to establish similarity
          of prior contract to solicited requirement and sufficient experience of their own,
          agency reasonably found protester's proposal unacceptable on basis that its
          experience as a prime contractor was limited to work not comparable to the
          requirement and otherwise indicated that the protester's relevant experience was
          essentially limited to its subcontractor's experience.

          2. In evaluation of offerors' proposals, where agency found that one offeror's
          experience as a prime contractor met requirements for similarity in size, scope,
          complexity and relevance to the solicited requirements, but concluded that
          protester's experience as a prime was not sufficiently comparable to solicitation
          requirements, agency did not engage in unequal treatment of offerors, since record
          supports finding that the different conclusions were reasonable.
          DECISION

          Career Quest, Inc. protests the elimination of its proposal from the competition
          under request for proposals (RFP) No. SSA-RFP-03-0523, issued by the Social
          Security Administration (SSA) for clerical support services. Career Quest challenges
          the agency's evaluation of the technical proposals.

          We deny the protest.

          The RFP, a section 8(a) set-aside, sought proposals to provide clerical services in
          support of SSA's Megasite Folder Storage Facility in Baltimore, Maryland. The
          Megasite master files area is designed to house approximately 4.7 million folders,

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