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B-291375 1 (2002-11-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoiw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting 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. Decision Matter of: Innovative Management, Inc. File: B-291375 Date: November 20, 2002 Theodore M. Bailey, Esq., and Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., for the protester. Mike Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester was not prejudiced by agency's alleged loss of protester's original transparencies for its oral presentation, where agency provided protester with copies of the transparencies that protester used during its oral presentation, and nothing in the record suggests that the lack of the original transparencies and use of copied transparencies had any effect on the evaluation. DECISION Innovative Management, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Medical Business Consultants (MBC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 232-03-0001, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, for clinical operations services. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. The RFP, which was restricted to firms certified under the Small Business Administration's section 8(a) program, provided for the award of a labor-hour, personal services contract for a base period of I year with four 1-year options. RFP at 90, 121. The RFP stated that award would be made to the offeror whose proposal represented the best value to the government based upon the following evaluation factors: technical merit, past performance, and price. The RFP provided that technical merit would receive paramount consideration in the agency's award determination. RFP at 134. The RFP provided that offerors whose proposals had been determined by the agency to be in the competitive range would be invited to make oral presentations addressing the offerors' Understanding of the Problem and Technical Approach to accomplishing the goals and objectives of this solicitation. Offerors were requested

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