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B-278904.3 1 (1998-04-13)

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oComptroller General
             of the United States
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             Decision                                 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                                     The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I
                                                     GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
                                                     approved for public release.



             Matter of: Techsys Corporation

             File:        B-278904.3

             Date:        April 13, 1998

             Kenneth D. Brody, Esq., and J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., McMahon, David & Brody,
             for the protester.
             Paralee White, Esq., Gadsby & Hannah, for Walcoff & Associates, an intervenor.
             Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., Patricia D. Graham, Esq., and Joseph A. Lenhard, Esq.,
             Department of Energy, for the agency.
             Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
             GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
             DIGEST

             1. Where solicitation proposal preparation instructions set forth type size and a
             clearly defined page limitation for proposals, agency appropriately declined to
             consider those pages of the protester's proposal which exceeded the specified page
             limitation.

             2. Agency evaluation of technical proposals is unobjectionable where the record
             establishes that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated
             evaluation factors; protester's mere disagreement with the agency's conclusion does
             not render the evaluation unreasonable.
             DECISION

             Techsys Corporation protests the Department of Energy's (DOE) decision not to
             award Techsys a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RP01-
             97EI30000, issued by DOE for technical services for the Energy Information
             Administration (EIA).1 Techsys asserts that DOE improperly and arbitrarily
             eliminated certain pages of Techsys's proposal from consideration and otherwise
             improperly evaluated the proposal.

             We deny the protest.

             DOE issued the RFP, referred to as the EIA Omnibus Procurement (EOP), via the
             Internet on July 7, 1997. This solicitation, which combined technical support


1EIA is an independent statistical and analytical agency within DOE.

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