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B-413990 1 (2016-01-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadszz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Access Interpreting, Inc. File: B-413990 Date: January 17, 2017 Daniel S. Koch, Esq., and Michael E. Samuels, Esq., Miles & Stockbridge PC, for the protester. Laura Wainwright, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of an awardee's proposal and the agency's best-value selection decision are denied where the record demonstrates that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Access Interpreting, Inc. (Access), of Washington, D.C., protests the award of a contract to Vital Signs LLC, of Silver Spring, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTOS5916R00005 issued by the Department of Transportation (DOT) for sign language interpreter services. Access challenges the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposal and the best-value determination. We dismiss the protest in part and deny the protest in part. BACKGROUND On May 23, 2016, DOT issued the RFP, which contemplated the award of a labor- hours, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for a base year and four one-year option periods, using the procedures in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items. RFP at 1. The RFP contemplated award on a best-value basis, using a tradeoff between price and non-price factors. Id. at 29. In an amendment to the RFP, the agency advised that although the RFP was issued as a total small business set-aside, businesses of any size were invited

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