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B-311462.2,B-311462.3 1 (2008-10-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaqb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A G A O Comptroller General .Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been *eiinapproved for public release. D e c i s i o n ----------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: Fintrac, Inc. File: B-311462.2; B-311462.3 Date: October 14, 2008 Tenley A. Carp, Esq., Victor G. Klingelhofer, Esq., and John J. O'Brien, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for the protester. Barbara A. Duncombe, Esq., G. Drew Fuller, Esq., and Suzanne Sumner, Esq., Sebaly Shillito + Dyer, for the intervenor. John B. Alumbaugh, Esq., and Elizabeth A. Ransom, Esq., Agency for International Development, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's revision to scoring methodology used to evaluate offerors' technical proposals is denied where the revision reasonably addressed an error in the agency's prior scoring methodology. 2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of offerors' technical and cost proposals is denied where the record supports the reasonableness of the evaluations. DECISION Fintrac, Inc. protests the award of a contract to CNFA, Inc. by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under request for proposals (RFP) No. M-OAA-DCHA-AFP-07-0011, for assistance with the agency's Market Chain Enhancement Program (MarChE) in Haiti. The protester contends that USAID's evaluation of the offerors' technical and cost proposals was flawed, that the agency failed to provide meaningful discussions, and that the selection decision was flawed. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued in March 2007 and sought proposals to provide economic development assistance to Haiti. The MarChE program seeks to increase the number

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