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B-400550 1 (2008-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadarg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General KA Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Integrated Management Resources Group, Inc File: B-400550 Date: December 12, 2008 William B. Barton, Jr., Esq., John R. Tolle, Esq., and Bryan R. King, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon & Tolle, LLP, for the protester. Kerry B. McTigue, Esq., and Tamara M. McNulty, Esq., DuaneMorris LLP, for Randstand Inhouse Services, L.P., an intervenor. Mark L. Hansen, Esq., Andrew J. Seff, Esq., and Dawn M. Conover, Esq., Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's cost realism evaluation of awardee's proposal is denied where the agency's workpapers demonstrate that the conclusions reached by the evaluators were reasonable. 2. Protest challenging the evaluation of technical proposals is denied where the record establishes that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria. 3. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of past performance is denied where the record establishes that the agency properly considered the relevance of the protester's references when deciding what weight, if any, to give each reference. DECISION Integrated Management Resources Group, Inc. (IMRG), of Lanham, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to the Randstad Inhouse Services, L.P. of Washington, D.C. under request for proposals (RFP) No. PBGCO1-RP-08-0004, issued by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) for professional pension benefit administration support services. IMRG argues that the agency's evaluation of its and Randstad's technical proposals, its own past performance, as well as the evaluation of Randstad's cost proposal, was unreasonable. The protester also contends that the agency lacked impartiality towards IMRG during the procurement.

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