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B-285394.2 1 (2000-12-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaldi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity 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: Metropolitan Interpreters & Translators File: B-285394.2; B-285394.3; B-285394.4 Date: December 1, 2000 Patrick K. O'keefe, Esq., and Thomas F. Burke, Esq., McKenna & Cuneo, for the protester. Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., and Philip M. Dearborn III, Esq., Piliero, Mazza & Pargament, for Comprehensive Technologies International, Inc., an intervenor. J. Michael Sawyers, Esq., Drug Enforcement Administration, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of award of contract for linguist services is denied where agency reasonably determined technical advantages of the awardee's proposal were worth its higher price; awardee's proposal was evaluated superior to protester's under the second and third most important technical evaluation factors, both proposals were evaluated acceptable under most important factor, and technical considerations were substantially more important than price. DECISION Metropolitan Interpreters & Translators protests the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) award of a contract to Comprehensive Technologies International, Inc. (CTI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DEA-99-R-0004, for linguist services for DEA's New York Field Division (NYFD). Metropolitan primarily challenges the technical evaluation. We deny the protest. The RFP anticipated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity labor-hour contract, for a base year with 4 option years, for linguist services--including monitoring, transcribing and interpreting--and automated data processing (ADP) services in support of judicially authorized communications intercepts. Although the majority of the linguist work required is for translating

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