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B-290163,B-290163.2 1 (2002-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsrz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A A 0 Comptroller General • Accountability * 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: Resource Consultants, Inc. File: B-290163; B-290163.2 Date: June 7, 2002 Jacob B. Pompan, Esq., and Gerald H. Werfel, Esq., Pompan, Murray & Werfel, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., Rowena E. Laxa, Esq., and Catherine K. Kroll, Esq., Cohen Mohr, for NCS Pearson, Inc., an intervenor. Duane L. Zezula, Esq., Department of Transportation, Transportation Security Administration, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. General Accounting Office has jurisdiction over protest challenging the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) award of a contract for services where the applicable statutory language effectively exempts TSA's acquisitions of equipment, supplies, and materials--but not acquisitions of services--from GAO's bid protest jurisdiction. 2. Protests that contracting agency's evaluation of proposals and source selection decisions were unreasonable are denied where the record shows that the evaluation and source selection decisions were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria. DECISION Resource Consultants, Inc. (RCI) protests the award of a contract to NCS Pearson, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTTS59-02-R-00440, issued by the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Transportation Administrative Service Center (TASC), on behalf of the newly created Transportation Security Administration (TSA), to obtain a wide range of human resources services to establish and support the TSA. RCI challenges as unreasonable the agency's evaluation of proposals and source selection decisions. We deny the protests.

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