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B-284860.2 1 (2000-12-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalbq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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: DevTech Systems, Inc. File: B-284860.2 Date: December 20, 2000 Alex D. Tomaszczuk, Esq., John E. Jensen, Esq., and Daniel S. Herzfeld, Esq., Shaw Pittman, for the protester. Kevin F. O'Donnell, Esq., Agency for International Development, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions with the protester where, in taking corrective action in response to a prior protest, it reevaluated the protester's proposal as having a number of weaknesses and deficiencies that had not been previously identified and were critical to the contracting officer's determination not to select the proposal for award, and the weaknesses and deficiencies were not raised with the protester by the agency during discussions. DECISION DevTech Systems, Inc. protests the award of contracts to the Academy for Educational Development (AED) and Creative Associates International, Inc., (CAI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. M/OP-99-644, issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for professional short-term advisory and technical assistance services. DevTech argues that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions with it, and that the agency's evaluation of its proposal and selection for award of the proposals submitted by AED and CAI were unreasonable. We sustain the protest.

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