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B-291304.2 1 (2002-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacydi0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: The CDM Group, Inc. File: B-291304.2 Date: December 23, 2002 Kathryn Herron-Venancio for the protester. Capt. Peter G. Hartman and Capt. Karri L. Garrett, Department of the Army, and Thedlus L. Thompson, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agencies. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where an agency solicited a requirement under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program, it properly rejected a quote from a vendor that did not possess a FSS contract covering the solicited requirement. DECISION The CDM Group, Inc. protests the rejection of its quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DAHA90-02-T-0023, issued by the National Guard Bureau for assessment services for the Youth ChalleNGe Program. We deny the protest. In 1993, Congress authorized the National Guard to conduct a National Guard Civilian Youth Opportunities Program (Youth ChalleNGe Program). Under the program, the National Guard provides military training, as well as experience with community service and conservation projects, to youth who failed to graduate from high school. The mission of the program is to intervene in the lives of at-risk youth between the ages of 16 and 18 years, and produce program graduates with the values, skill, education and self-discipline to succeed as adults. The National Guard has established 31 programs in 26 states. As part of the program, Congress mandated an assessment of the program by an independent evaluator who would report annually on the program outcomes and impacts. To satisfy this purpose, the National Guard issued the RFQ on July 31, 2002, seeking fixed-price quotes from vendors with Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts to

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