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B-400760.4,B-400760.5 1 (2010-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbei0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,G A O Comptroller General LXn , 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: AINS, Inc. File: B-400760.4; B-400760.5 Date: January 19, 2010 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the protester. Peter F. Garvin, III, Esq., and Grant H. Willis, Esq., Jones Day, for Privasoft Corporation, an intervenor. John R. Caterini, Esq., and Kristen E. Bucher, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions with protester where it did not reasonably advise the protester of agency's real concern with protester's quotation-- that evaluators considered its project schedule to be too short. Agency's request during discussions that protester submit a new project schedule as part of its final revised quotation did not reasonably convey to the protester that the evaluators viewed its proposed schedule as too aggressive, particularly given that a period of over a year had elapsed between submission of initial quotations and submission of final revised quotations. 2. Protest challenging agency evaluation of quotations received in response to solicitation for establishment of a blanket purchase agreement for an automated Freedom of Information Act system and associated services is sustained where record fails to demonstrate that the evaluation was reasonable and even-handed. DECISION AINS, Inc. of Rockville, Maryland protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with, and issuance of a first call for services to, Privasoft Corp. of Ottawa, Canada under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DJJR-08-F-0536, issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for an automated Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) system and associated services. The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of quotations was unreasonable and lacking in even-handedness and that the evaluators failed to conduct meaningful discussions with it.

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