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B-291533 1 (2003-01-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyea0001 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: SKJ & Associates, Inc. File: B-291533 Date: January 13, 2003 Joseph M. Jankite for the protester. Mike Colvin, Department of Health & Human Services, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency did not have a reasonable basis to reject the protester's quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) for training services where the RFQ required submission of a technical proposal but gave no guidance as to its content or how it would be evaluated; the protester submitted a technical proposal; and the agency then rejected the proposal as unresponsive because it was too short and too general and failed to provide evidence that the firm understood how to perform the work or to include a plan showing how the firm would implement the substance of the work. DECISION SKJ & Associates, Inc. protests the award of a purchase order to Policy Research Associates, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 02M000077, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for intensive training in the social security income application process. SKJ contends that the agency's evaluation was not in accordance with the evaluation criteria. We sustain the protest. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within HHS, provides funding (under the Projects for Assistance in the Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program) to states and territories to offer community-based services for people who have serious mental illness who are homeless or at risk of imminent homelessness. One of the services provided to these individuals is to assist in obtaining social security income (SSI) and social security disability income benefits for which they are eligible. This responsibility is

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