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T-GGD-90-20 1 (1990-02-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaapbt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: / tc:mWL,1 Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision 140779 Matter of: Abt Associates Inc. File: B-237060.2 Date: February 26, 1990 Craig G. Coelen, for the protester. Robert C. Granger, for Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, an interested party. James Trickett, Department of Health & Human Services, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Procuring agency properly determined that the protester's initial proposal was unacceptable and not in the competitive range where the request for proposals sought the evaluation of specific selected state Job Opportunities and Basic Skills programs and the protester offered to perform a generalized nationally representative survey based upon a random sample. 2. Procuring agency need not include the protester's unacceptable initial proposal in the competitive range where major revisions would be required to make the proposal acceptable. 3. Protest that agency did not invite the protester to a research workshop, which concerned the methods of evaluating the Family Support Act and Job Opportunities and Basic Skills programs, is untimely where the protester had known about the conference since the issuance of the solicitation and only protested this matter after the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range. DECISION Abt Associates Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) C_'14-Tc ,?_5

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