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B-400058,B-400058.3 1 (2008-07-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaxv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General Acorsm ni *tr ~ia of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been D ec*ionapproved for public release. Matter of: Public Communications Services, Inc. File: B-400058; B-400058.3 Date: July 18, 2008 James J. Regan, Esq., Daniel R. Forman, Esq., John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., Puja Satiani, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Peter F. Garvin, III, Esq., Nancy L. Berardinelli-Krantz, Esq., Jones Day, for Value-Added Communications, Inc., an intervenor. Michael J. Davidson, Esq., Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Government Accountability Office has jurisdiction to hear protest of the award of a no-cost contract for provision of phone services to detainees in the custody of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement because the contract concerns a procurement for services by a federal agency and results in a benefit to the government. 2. Protest challenging the evaluation of offerors' prices is sustained where the solicitation required offerors to propose eight international calling rates, but the agency evaluated only one rate as a surrogate for the others without a reasonable basis to do so. 3. Protest challenging the evaluation of protester's technical proposal is sustained where the agency's identification of technical deficiencies was not reasonable because certain features viewed as missing from protester's proposal were not required by the solicitation, and because the record shows that the offerors were not evaluated equally. 4. Protest alleging that awardee made material misrepresentations concerning its proposal and in connection with a Small Business Administration size status protest is denied where the record does not show that misrepresentations were made.

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