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B-413990.2 1 (2018-06-12)

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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                             of the United States
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                                             DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                           The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                   a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                           been approved for public release.


Matter of:   Access Interpreting, Inc.

File:        B-413990.2

Date:        June 12, 2018

Daniel S. Koch, Esq., Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., and Michael E. Samuels, Esq., Miles
& Stockbridge PC, for the protester.
Laura Wainwright, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Kenneth E. Patton, Esq., Office of
the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Request for reconsideration of prior decision denying a protest of the agency's
evaluation of awardee's proposal is denied, where the protester does not show that the
prior decision contains errors of fact or law that warrant reversal or modification of the
decision.
DECISION

Access Interpreting, Inc., of Washington, District of Columbia, requests reconsideration
of our decision in Access Interpretingq, Inc., B-413990, Jan. 17, 2017, 2017 CPD T 24,
denying the firm's protest of the award of a contract to Vital Signs LLC, of Silver Spring,
Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTOS591 R00005, issued by the
Department of Transportation (DOT) for sign language interpreter services. Access
argues that our decision was wrong as a matter of law and fact.

We deny the request for reconsideration.

BACKGROUND

The RFP, issued on May 23, 2016, contemplated the award of a labor-hour, indefinite-
delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for a base year and four one-year option periods,
using the procedures in Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 12, Acquisition of
Commercial Items. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, RFP at 1. In general terms, the RFP
required the contractor to provide sign language interpreting services to the DOT and
other federal agencies located in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, as well
as various locations throughout the United States including Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin

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