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B-291409.3 1 (2003-01-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiwb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I , , G A 0 Comptroller General AAccountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting 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: AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc. File: B-291409.3 Date: January 28, 2003 John E. Jensen, Esq., Shaw Pittman, for the protester. Richard D. Lieberman, Esq., McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, for Worldwide Language Resources, Inc., an intervenor. Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Department of Interior, and John D. Inazu, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agencies. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency was biased against protester is denied where evidence does not demonstrate that agency acted to harm the protester and, in any case, there is no showing that any alleged bias affected the protester's competitive position. DECISION AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc. (ALC) protests the award of a contract to Worldwide Language Resources, Inc. under a solicitation issued by the Department of the Interior to procure linguists to support the Department of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). ALC complains that the Air Force acted in bad faith and was biased against it.' We deny the protest. Interior issued the solicitation in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation § 8.404 and the General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) to four vendors holding applicable FSS schedule contracts, whose names were provided to Interior by AFOSI. Initially, ALC was not sent a solicitation, as its name 'This protest is related to an earlier protest by AllWorld against the award to Worldwide, which we denied in our decision AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc., B-291409, B-291409.2, Dec. 16, 2002, 2003 CPD .

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