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B-278906 1 (1998-04-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahqx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: M3 Corporation File: B-278906 Date: April 1, 1998 Steven W. McKinzie for the protester. Richard V. Gonzales, Esq., United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Christine Davis, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. In a procurement for in-house training courses on simplified acquisition procedures, the agency properly downgraded the sample training materials submitted by the protester because the materials did not evidence that the protester understood simplified acquisition procedures or the requirements stated in the solicitation. 2. Agency was not required to conduct discussions concerning the protester's negative past performance references under an acquisition conducted under simplified acquisition proc edures. DECISION M3 Corporation protests the evaluation of its quotation and the award of a purchase order to Northwest Procurement Institute, Inc. (NPI) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DTCCG8-98-Q-0328, issued by the Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard, for in-house training courses on simplified acquisition procedures, to be taught at Coast Guard facilities in Petaluma, California. We deny the protest. The Coast Guard conducted this procurement pursuant to the simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13. The RFQ, issued on December 1, 1997, solicited quotations for an instructor and instructional materials for a basic and an advanced course on simplified acquisition procedures. RFQ Simplified Acquisition Procedures (basic course) Statement of Work (SOW), Advanced Simplified Acquisition Procedures (advanced course) SOW. Both courses were to include 40 hours of instruction over a 5-day period, the basic course to be taught from January 5 through January 9, 1998, and the advanced course to be taught from January 12 through January 16. Basic course SOW §§ 1(a), (c), Advanced course SOW §§ 1(a), (c). The RFQ identified with specificity the topics

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