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B-297276.2 1 (2006-03-01)

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A         G    A    O                                                   Comptroller General
.       Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                        of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548                                    DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                                      The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
                                                      GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
          Decision                                   .approved for public release.



          Matter of. Information Ventures, Inc.

          File:        B-297276.2; B-297276.3; B-297276.4

          Date:        March 1, 2006

          John S. Pachter, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Erin R. Karsman, Esq., David S.
          Stern, Esq., and Tamara F. Dunlap, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter & Allen PLC, for
          the protester.
          Stuart Turner, Esq., and Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for BRI
          Consulting Group, an intervenor.
          Stuart C. Briles, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency.
          Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest is sustained where agency failed to reconcile contradictory cost and
          technical evaluations regarding offerors' proposed staffing levels and unreasonably
          normalized offerors' proposed labor hours under its cost realism analysis.
          DECISION

          Information Ventures, Inc. (JVI) protests the award of a contract to BRI Consulting
          Group under request for proposals (RFP) 2005-N-01874, issued by the Department of
          Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for
          assistance and technical support for the agency's National Center for Chronic
          Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC).
          The protester challenges the reasonableness of the agency's evaluation of offerors'
          cost and technical proposals.

          We sustain the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          The agency sought proposals to assist the agency with information development and
          dissemination activities regarding a broad scope of priority cancer efforts. The
          statement of work required offerors to propose personnel, materials, supplies,
          equipment and technical support to achieve various assistance and technical support

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