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B-291657 1 (2003-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacygu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General 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: Integration Technologies Group, Inc. File: B-291657 Date: February 13, 2003 David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., Rowena E. Laxa, Esq., and Catherine K. Kroll, Esq., Cohen Mohr, for the protester. Lee P. Curtis, Esq., and Suzette W. Derrevere, Esq., Perkins Coie, for Communications Technologies, Inc., an intervenor. L. Benjamin Young, Jr., Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that small business concern awardee, under solicitation for nationwide computer and printer maintenance, misrepresented status of a large business firm as a member of its team is sustained where discussions between the awardee and its proposed large business subcontractor had consisted of essentially nothing more than the large firm's transmittal of a proposal to perform nearly all of the work, which the awardee recognized was unacceptable under the solicitation limitation on subcontracting; and the misrepresentation regarding the large firm's participation had a significant impact on the evaluation. DECISION Integration Technologies Group, Inc. (ITG) protests the Department of Agriculture's award of a contract to Communications Technologies, Inc. (COMTek), under request for proposals (RFP) No. FSA-R-003-02DC, for maintenance of computers and printers. ITG asserts that the favorable evaluation of COMTek's proposal was not a proper basis for award, because it was based in part on a misrepresentation. We sustain the protest. The RFP provided for award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to a small business concern for a base year, with 4 option years, for remedial and preventive maintenance of an estimated 2,557 Farm Service Agency (FSA) IBM AS/400 Model 170 computers, 3,130 IBM Model 4317 laser printers, and a small quantity of other laser printers (6 IBM Model 4028 and 12 IBM Model 5262).

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