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B-285643 1 (2000-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaldu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Joseph W. Beausoleil File: B-285643 Date: August 31, 2000 Kevin F. O'Donnell, Esq., and John K. Scales, Esq., U.S. Agency for International Development, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In evaluating applications submitted in response to a solicitation for a personal services contract, agency properly considered the relevance of the applicants' work experience to the contract requirements during the evaluation of applications under the work experience criterion. DECISION Joseph W. Beausoleil protests the award of a personal services contract under solicitation No. 675-00-005, issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) for a monitoring and evaluation specialist in Conakry, Guinea.' Mr. Beausoleil argues that the agency's evaluation of his and the awardee's applications was unreasonable and inconsistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued January 11, 2000, included a background section explaining that the overall program goal for AID in Guinea is to achieve improved economic and social well being of all Guineans in a participatory society. AID has established 1 Our Office has jurisdiction over this protest as it concerns a contract for the procurement of services. See 31 U.S.C. §§ 3551(1), 3552 (1994 & Supp. IV 1998); Federal Acquisition Regulation § 37.104; Mary Jo McDonough, B-270530, B-270530.2, Mar. 13, 1996, 96-1 CPD 154 at 2 n.2.

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