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B-282808 1 (1999-08-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajkp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General 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. Decision Matter of: Cotton & Company, LLP File: B-282808 Date: August 30, 1999 Alan M. Grayson, Esq., Ira E. Hoffman, Esq., and Brian T. Scher, Esq., Grayson & Associates, for the protester. Virginia K Ackerman, Esq., Department of Housing & Urban Development, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., Robert C. Arsenoff, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency did not conduct meaningful discussions with the protester where the agency failed to clearly identify deficiencies in the protester's proposal in either the written or the oral discussions and failed to respond when, in the oral discussions, it became clear that the protester had misunderstood the agency's concerns. DECISION Cotton & Company, LLP protests the award of a task order to KPMG Peat Marwick LLP under solicitation No. GF900000013, issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for audit services. Cotton challenges the evaluation of its proposal, the application of allegedly unstated evaluation criteria, the conduct of discussions, and the source selection decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was issued under the General Services Administration's Auditing Services & Financial Management Services Schedule to obtain an audit entitled: Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Single Family Procurement and Disbursement Review. According to the statement of work (SOW) which was included in the solicitation, the FHA, under its mortgage insurance programs,

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