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B-282555 1 (1999-07-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajkd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: _ _ _ 0 Comptroller General *h- -- *NW---_ of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: Chemonics International, Inc. File: B-282555 Date: July 23, 1999 Robert A. Mangrum, Esq., and Jason I. Hewitt, Esq., Winston & Strawn, for the protester. Kenneth A. Martin, Esq., and Jennifer C. Adams, Esq., Martin & Rylander, for Planning and Development Collaborative International, Inc., an intervenor. Gary Winter, Esq., and A. Lindsey Crawford, Esq., Agency for International Development, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where protester and awardee initially proposed comparable levels of effort for a particular category of key personnel and, during discussions, the agency provided awardee, but not protester, with detailed advice regarding the importance of increasing the proposed levels of effort for those personnel, and also provided only the awardee the opportunity to submit multiple iterations of its proposal and to receive detailed agency feedback on each iteration, the agency's conduct improperly favored one offeror over another. DECISION Chemonics International, Inc. protests the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) award of a contract to Planning and Development Collaborative International, Inc. (PADCO) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 263-98-P-011 to assist recently formed water/wastewater utilities in providing water and wastewater services in Egypt. Chemonics asserts that the agency conducted discussions in a manner which unreasonably favored PADCO, applied unstated evaluation criteria, and awarded the contract on the basis of PADCO's proposal which failed to comply with material RFP requirements. We sustain the protest.

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