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B-270774.3 1 (1996-06-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeay0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of. Research for Better Schools, Inc. File: B-270774.3 Date: June 17, 1996 Joel R. Feidelman, Esq., Catherine E. Pollack, Esq., and Nancy R. Wagner, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for the protester. Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., John A. Burkholder, Esq., Jessica C. Abrahams, Esq., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, for Temple University, an intervenor. Jeffrey Morhardt, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee's proposal does not comply with applicable statute relating to the composition and authority of proposed governing board is denied where record shows awardee proposed board meeting all statutory requirements. 2. Allegations relating to awardee's compliance with material informational requirements in solicitation are denied where record shows that, in fact, awardee provided all necessary information. 3. Protest that agency source selection official relied on documents that failed to accurately embody the opinions of the agency's technical evaluators is denied where record shows that documents presented to source selection official contained the consensus conclusions of the technical evaluators. 4. Agency properly did not advise protester during discussions that aspects of its proposal were not viewed as favorably as same aspects of awardee's proposal; such relative weaknesses are not matters for discussion, as they do not relate to deficiencies found to protester's proposal, but rather to fundamental differences in the offerors' proposed solutions. DECISION Research for Better Schools, Inc. (RBS) protests the award of a contract to Temple University under request for proposals (RFP) No. 95-040, issued by the Department of Education (DOE) for the operation of a mid-Atlantic regional educational 115722

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