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B-278678 1 (1998-02-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahpr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: The American Indian Center, Inc. File: B-278678 Date: February 27, 1998 Mary Helen Deer and T. Craig Anderson for the protester. Terrence J. Tychan, Department of Health & Human Services, for the agency. Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest objecting to technical evaluation of proposal is denied where record demonstrates that evaluators' judgments as to merits of proposal were reasonable. 2. General Accounting Office will not consider complaint that awardee lacks the stability of management and financial integrity necessary for performance since such a complaint is in essence a challenge to the contracting officer's affirmative determination of responsibility. DECISION The American Indian Center, Inc. (AIC) protests the evaluation of its proposal and the award of a contract to the Dallas Inter-tribal Center, Inc. (DIC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 246-97-R-0012, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, for operation of a medical and dental clinic serving the Indian population of the Dallas, Texas metropolitan area. The protester contends that the evaluators' criticisms of its proposal were unfounded and that the awardee should have been found ineligible for award. We deny the protest. The RFP solicited proposals to furnish, equip, and staff an outpatient medical and dental clinic accessible to the Indian population of the Dallas metropolitan region. The solicitation advised offerors that technical factors, the most important of which were program description (worth 35 percent of an offeror's technical score), health problem statements (worth 20 percent), and equipment and facilities (also worth 20 percent), would be of paramount importance in the selection of an awardee,1 1The remaining technical evaluation factors were staff organization and supervision (worth 10 percent of the technical score), quality assurance and program evaluation (continued...)

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