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B-285777 1 (2000-10-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalee0001 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: Checchi and Company Consulting, Inc. File: B-285777 Date: October 10, 2000 Robert Sonenthal, Esq., and Nina G. Nathani, Esq., Sonenthal and Overall, for the protester. Roy Goldberg, Esq., Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, for DPK Consulting, the intervenor. Diane A. Perone, 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 1. General Accounting Office cannot find that the agency reasonably evaluated the protester's oral presentation where the agency and protester disagree as to the content of the oral presentation, the contemporaneous record of the oral discussions and presentations--which consists only of the protester's presentation materials and the evaluators' scoresheets--does not support the evaluators' conclusions regarding the protester's approach, and the agency did not act in accordance with the terms of the solicitation where it disregarded the protester's previously submitted written proposal in evaluating the oral presentation. 2. Agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions where it did not reasonably apprise the protester during discussions of significant weaknesses that caused the protester's proposal to be eliminated from the competition. DECISION Checchi and Company Consulting, Inc. protests the award of a contract to DPK Consulting under request for proposals (RFP) No. 519-00-P-006, issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), for technical assistance and training to the government of El Salvador. Checchi contends that the agency's evaluation and exclusion of its proposal from the competition and the evaluation of DPK's proposal and its selection for award were unreasonable and inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation, and that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions.

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