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B-401735.3 1 (2010-02-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbev0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabily - Integrity Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Laducer & Associates, Inc. File: B-401735.3 Date: February 23, 2010 Wayne A. Keup, Esq., for the protester. David A. Ingold, Esq., Internal Revenue Service, 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 Agency's determination that it needed to provide all offerors with updated volume estimates, as well as to ensure that offerors properly understand the relative value of both proposing innovations and obtaining reliable, accurate, and timely results, constitutes a reasonable basis for reopening the competition. DECISION Laducer & Associates, Inc., of Mandan, North Dakota, protests the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS or agency) issuance of amendment No. 5 to request for quotations (RFQ) No. TIRNO-08-Q-00124 for the conversion of paper-based documents to digital format. The agency issued the RFQ amendment in response to a prior protest filed by another offeror, Mandaree Enterprise Corporation; that prior protest challenged the agency's award of a contract to Laducer. The RFQ amendment at issue makes various changes to the terms of the solicitation, and seeks revised proposals from the offerors.' Laducer maintains that the agency should be precluded from seeking revised proposals, and argues that the agency's actions should be limited to reevaluating the previously submitted proposals. 1 Although the solicitation identified itself as an RFQ, the term proposal as opposed to quotation, appears repeatedly throughout the solicitation, and the solicitation contemplated an evaluation and source selection scheme similar to those used in negotiated procurements. For the sake of consistency, our decision adopts the terminology used by the solicitation.

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