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B-403461.2 1 (2010-09-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbmj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: li AL A , GA O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Training Management Solutions, Inc. File: B-403461.2 Date: September 29, 2010 Don Pruitt for the protester. LTC Dana J. Chase, Department of the Army, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's corrective action, which was to amend the solicitation, request new proposals, and make a new award decision, is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the solicitation's evaluation criteria were stated inaccurately, and the corrective action was necessary to remedy the error. DECISION Training Management Solutions, Inc. (TMSI), of Phoenix, Arizona, protests the corrective action taken by the Department of the Army under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91QF4-10-R-0021 for digital training management system sustainment. In response to TMSI's earlier protest, the agency took corrective action, and we dismissed the protest as academic. See Training Mgmt. Solutions, Inc., B-403461, Aug. 19, 2010. The protester challenges the corrective action on multiple grounds, arguing that the contracting officer abused his discretion. We deny the protest. The original RFP contained three technical evaluation factors--technical approach, management and staffing, and past performance. When combined, those factors were significantly more important than cost/price. Original RFP at 41. Three offerors, including the awardee and the protester, submitted proposals. The earlier protest followed contract award. In response to that protest, the agency announced it would take the following corrective action: amend the solicitation to reflect that the combination of the technical factors is approximately equal to (not significantly more important than)

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