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B-400870.3 1 (2009-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadayx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General 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: University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute File: B-400870.3 Date: July 15, 2009 Paul E. Pompeo, Esq., Kristen E. Ittig, Esq., and Caitlin K. Cloonan, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. Jonathan J. Frankel, Esq., Jay P. Urwitz, Esq., and Kelly Thompson Cochran, Esq., Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, for the intervenor. Charles B. Wallace, Esq., and Sherry Kinlan Kaswell, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Post-award protest challenging agency's elimination of proposal for region-wide consortium approach that was filed more than 3 months after protester received notice of the proposal's elimination is not timely where protester received all of the information on which the protest is based at the time the proposal was eliminated; exception to timeliness rules based on receipt of a debriefing is inapplicable where protester chose to delay debriefing regarding the eliminated proposal until after award. 2. Selection of higher-rated, higher-priced proposals is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined that various aspects of awardee's proposals, that established their technical superiority, outweighed the protester's price advantages. DECISION University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute (UMDI), of Hadley, Massachusetts, protests the actions of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Business Center Acquisition Services Directorate (AQD), in connection with four contracts awarded to Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), of Newton, Massachusetts, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to provide training and technical assistance services for HHS grantees in the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. 1406-04-08-RP-20771. UMDI asserts that the agency improperly rejected one of

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