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B-411481.3 1 (2016-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrvt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE I The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc. File: B-411481.3 Date: January 6, 2016 Justin A. Chiarodo, Esq., Harvey G. Sherzer, Esq., Stephanie M. Zechmann, Esq., and Philip E. Beshara, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for the protester. Richard P. Rector, Esq., Daniel J. Cook, Esq., and C. Bradford Jorgensen, Esq., DLA Piper LLP- US, for SOS International, Ltd., an intervenor. Adrienne Bolton, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's issuance of a task order to a firm under its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract is sustained where record shows that the task order was based on awardee quoting a labor category under its FSS contract that does not meet the requirements of the solicitation. DECISION AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to SOS International, Ltd. (SOSI), of Reston, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. ID0415002, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to acquire, on behalf of the Department of the Air Force, linguistic support services to be performed in southwest Asia. AllWorld maintains that the agency misevaluated quotations, made an unreasonable source selection decision, and failed to engage in meaningful discussions with the protester. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ contemplates the issuance, on a best-value basis, of a fixed-price task order to provide linguist services at various locations for a one-year base period and two 1-year options. The RFQ also includes both base and optional quantities that the acquiring activity can purchase at any time during the life of the task order. The

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