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B-292060 1 (2003-06-10)

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         G    A     0Comptroller General
 .    .Accountability * Integrity Reliability                       of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548



         Decision


         Matter  of: Venturi Technology Partners

         File:       B-292060

         Date:       June 10, 2003

         C. W. Laugerbaum for the protester.
         Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency.
         Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         1. Protest is denied where in a competitive procurement under the Federal Supply
         Schedule (FSS) the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent
         with the stated evaluation factors.

         2. Agency's conduct of discussions with two other FSS vendors without affording
         protester an opportunity to address technical deficiencies in its proposal is
         unobjectionable where agency reasonably concluded that protester's proposal
         should be excluded from further consideration because of reasonable concerns
         about its technical compliance and its higher price.
         DECISION

         Venturi Technology Partners protests the issuance of a task order to Genuity, Inc.
         under Genuity's General Services Administration (GSA) FSS contract No. GS-35F-
         0177J, pursuant to a request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Department of
         Veterans Affairs (VA) to acquire Internet service provider (ISP) services. Venturi
         challenges the evaluation of its proposal and complains that the agency improperly
         failed to conduct discussions with the firm. The protester also alleges that the
         agency improperly selected Genuity for award after Genuity had filed for
         bankruptcy.

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