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B-278851 1 (1998-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahql0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: McShade Enterprises File: B-278851 Date: March 23, 1998 William McAndrew for the protester. Kacie A. Haberly, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Robert Arsenoff, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency misevaluated protester's proposal is denied where it is based solely on protester's disagreement with the evaluators' conclusions. DECISION McShade Enterprises protests the rejection of its offer under request for proposals (RFP) No. FCXA-SG-970005-N, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) as a multiple-award Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract solicitation to obtain various designated temporary professional support services to be ordered by government agencies. McShade principally alleges that its proposal was misevaluated and that the agency should have conducted discussions with, or sought clarification from, the protester with regard to shortcomings in its proposal.1 We deny the protest. 1McShade also questions the adequacy of the debriefing conducted by GSA. Such challenges are procedural matters which do not affect the validity of an award decision and we generally will not review them. Thermolten Tech.. Inc., B-278408, B-278408.2, Jan. 26, 1998, 98-1 CPD T 35 at 5. Likewise, we will not review McShade's complaints about the manner in which GSA handled its agency-level protest since it did not affect the validity of the procurement. In addition, we dismiss as untimely McShade's allegations that the solicitation's description of work required was so broad that offerors could not reasonably provide a detailed description of their capabilities to perform and the manner in which they planned to perform. Protests based on alleged improprieties in a solicitation which are apparent prior to the time set for receipt of initial proposals must be filed prior to that time. Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. § 21.2(a)(1) (1997). McShade's initial agency-level protest was not filed until after its proposal had been eliminated from consideration.

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