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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: LIS, Inc.
File: B-400646.4
Date: January 4, 2010
David Z. Bodenheimer, Esq., and Antonio G. Mendoza, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP,
for the protester.
Clay C. Cook, Esq., and William D. Robinson, Esq., Department of Justice, for the
agency.
Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency reasonably evaluated proposals for library and information center services
under the experience, past performance and technical approach factors, where it
reasonably credited the protester's incumbent experience, but determined that the
awardee's proposal was technically superior to the protester's under the technical
approach factor because it had more distinguishable strengths and was technically
equal to the protester's under the experience and past performance factors, and
reasonably made award based on the awardee's lower-priced, technically superior
proposal.
DECISION
LIS, Inc. of Lafayette, Colorado protests the award of a contract to Labat-Anderson,
Inc., of McLean, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFPCOB-008, issued
by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, for library and information
center services. LIS challenges the evaluation of proposals and source selection
decision.
We deny the protest.
The National Institutes of Corrections (NIC) provides leadership and assistance in
the field of corrections with regard to training, technical assistance, research and
evaluation, policy standards formulation and implementation, and clearinghouse
services. The NIC contains an information center that collect[s], prepar[es], and
disseminat[es] information on corrections, including information on prisons, jails,
probation, parole, and community based corrections. The mission for these](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadbdt0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)