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B-200756.2 1 (1981-11-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjvw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION OILR C A ,.- THE COMPTROL ENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGT0N, 0.C 2054e FILE: B-200756.2 DATE: November 2, 1981 MATTER OF: Monitor International, Inc. -- Agency Request For Reconsideration. DIGEST: 1. Where agency reiterates reason for limi- ting competitive range which already was considered as part of original protest record, matter will not be considered further. 2. Agency has not performed adequate cost realism analysis when it fails to examine basis of provisional overhead rates and all other costs proposed by all offerors for a cost reimbursement type contract. 3. Where competitive range was based on final results of combined technical and cost evaluation which placed great emphasis on cost, agency's failure to conduct adequate cost analysis left it in no position to determine that any proposal was out of line as to price and technical ability so that further discussions would be meaningless. The Agency for Volunteer Service (ACTION) requests reconsideration of our decision, Monitor International, Inc., B-200756, September 14, 1981, 81-2 CPD 214. We sus- tained Monitor's protest against ACTION because we found that the agency unreasonably excluded all offerors but one, CHP International, Inc., from the competitive range under Request for Proposals (RFP) No. 80-19. The RFP solicited proposals for a cost reimbursement contract to obtain training for Peace Corps volunteers in Paraguay. We found that ACTION improperly factored unanalyzed and potentially unrealistic cost estimates into the RFP's evaluation formula, the results of which were used to

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