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B-289173 1 (2002-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaocd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Flowlogic File: B-289173 Date: January 22, 2002 Adindu A. Uzoma for the protester. Ken Reed, for Training Technologies, Inc., an intervenor. Craig R. Schmauder, Esq., and Christopher J. Wood, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Argument that request for quotations overstated agency's real needs, as evidenced by allegedly relaxed requirements in subsequent sole-source purchase order, is without merit, where record shows that agency's needs, although relaxed due to unforeseeable circumstances, were not overstated, and that protester's quotation would have been unacceptable even under relaxed requirements. DECISION Workflow Systems, Inc. d/b/a Flowlogic protests the decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue a sole-source purchase order to Training Technologies, Inc. (TTI) for software, technical support, training and maintenance to administer 360-degree performance review surveys and organizational surveys at the Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, Alabama. We deny the protest. On August 2, 2001, the agency issued request for quotations (RFQ) No. DACW87-01- Q-0012 using simplified acquisition procedures, for a commercial software package to administer the performance review and organizational surveys for a base year, with three 1-year options. The RFQ set forth specific requirements for the software, including, for example, that the surveys be accessible through an Internet browser, that responses to the surveys be anonymous, and that the software support a minimum of 50 concurrent users. The RFQ also specified that the software had to allow users to write comments for each survey question and that each comment field

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