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B-403688 1 (2010-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbpe0001 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: International Medical Corps File: B-403688 Date: December 6, 2010 William M. Weisberg, Esq., Bryan Cave LLP, for the protester. R. Rene Dupuy, Esq., Agency for International Development, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that an agency unreasonably evaluated protester's technical proposal and excluded it from the competitive range is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the protester's proposal contained numerous weaknesses and deficiencies and was not among the most highly rated offers. DECISION International Medical Corps (IMC) of Washington, D.C., protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. 267-10- 009, issued by the Agency for International Development (AID) for healthcare support services for the Iraqi Ministry of Health (MOH). The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal and complains that the agency did not clarify its proposal before excluding it from the competitive range. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15, provided for the award of a 4-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for services supporting AID's primary healthcare project in Iraq. This project is intended to assist the Iraqi MOH in achieving better quality primary healthcare services. See RFP at 1. The RFP included a detailed statement of work (SOW). The SOW provided an overview of the current Iraqi healthcare system and identified a number of deliverables corresponding to project components and key principles. These principles included rapid, measurable improvements in the quality of healthcare

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