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B-297421 1 (2005-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptarad0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * 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. Decision Matter of: STR, L.L.C. File: B-297421 Date: December 22, 2005 Thomas A. Coulter, Esq., LeClair Ryan P.C., for the protester. Warren D. Leishman, Esq., and Peter E. Young, Esq., Agency for International Development, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Government Accountability Office will not consider protest of an award of a subcontract as by the government where the prime contractor drafted the portion of the solicitation pertaining to evaluation of vendor responses; participated substantially in the evaluation of responses and selection of a product for award; and will be responsible for administration of the subcontract. DECISION STR, L.L.C. protests the proposed award of a subcontract by SRA International, Inc., a government prime contractor, to Infoterra, Inc. The subcontract is for a grants management software program to be used by the Agency for International Development (AID) and the Department of State. We dismiss the protest. SRA holds a contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center pursuant to which it is performing a task order for information management services for AID. In its capacity as a government prime contractor, SRA issued a request for information (RFI) on August 12, 2005, seeking detailed information on commercially available acquisition and assistance systems capable of satisfying the requirements of AID and the Department of State for a Joint Acquisition and Assistance Management System (JAAMS). The RFI explained that AID and State required proven commercial off-the- shelf products based on mature, fully developed systems already in production in other federal agencies, and that vendors could offer already integrated products or individual products capable of being integrated by SRA to meet the agencies'

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