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B-291105 1 (2002-11-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacycd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A 0Comptroller General A- 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: OMNIPLEX World Services Corporation File: B-291105 Date: November 6, 2002 Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., and Timothy Sullivan, Esq., Thompson Coburn, for the protester. Joel Alvarey, Esq., Immigration and Naturalization Service, for the contracting agency. Thedlus L. Thompson, Esq., for the General Services Administration. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency's award of a blanket purchase agreement to a firm pursuant to its federal supply schedule (FSS) contract was improper and contrary to the solicitation's terms is sustained where it is unclear from the record whether the services to be provided are within the scope of the offeror's FSS contract; the agency unreasonably determined that the offeror's proposal was technically acceptable; and the agency improperly failed to conduct the price realism evaluation required by the solicitation. DECISION OMNIPLEX World Services Corporation protests the award of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to B&W Technologies under request for proposals (RFP) No. OIS- 2-00229, issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to obtain investigative services from three offerors holding a current federal supply schedule (FSS) contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) under schedule 738 X, Human Resources and Equal Employment Opportunity Services, special item number (SIN) 595 21. OMNIPLEX argues that the award to B&W was improper and contrary to the terms of the solicitation. We sustain the protest. 'OMNIPLEX does not challenge the awards made to the two other offerors.

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