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B-285811 1 (2000-10-17)

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         G    A    O0                                                 Comptroller General
             A a * Integrity Reliability                              of the United States
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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: Information Spectrum, Inc.

          File:       B-285811; B-285811.2

          Date:       October 17, 2000

          Claude P. Goddard, Jr., Esq., and Brian P. Waagner, Esq., Wickwire Gavin, for the
          protester.
          David R. Johnson, Esq., and Michael K. Murphy, Esq., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, for
          PricewaterhouseCoopers, the intervenor.
          John A. Thompson, Esq., Kathy B. Cowley, Esq., and R. David Gale, Jr., Esq.,
          Department of the Navy, 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

          Even though the contemporaneous evaluation documentation was inadequate, the
          General Accounting Office finds, based upon credible testimony consistent with the
          contemporaneous record, that the agency reasonably evaluated the staffing level
          proposed by the awardee in its quote for technical support services to be obtained
          from a Federal Supply Schedule contract, where the record reflects that the agency
          evaluators considered, in addition to the total number of hours proposed, the
          awardee's proposed organizational structure, quality of personnel, and balance of
          hours between tasks.
          DECISION

          Information Spectrum, Inc. (ISI) protests the award of an order to
          PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) under its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract,
          pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. N00600-99-Q-2444, issued by the
          Department of the Navy, for technical support services. ISI contends that the Navy's
          evaluation of its and PWC's quotes was unreasonable and inconsistent with the
          terms of the solicitation.

          We deny the protest.

          The RFQ was issued for the operation and maintenance of the Navy Visibility and
          Management of Operating and Support Cost (VAMOSC) database for the Naval
          Center for Cost Analysis (NCCA). Agency Report at 1. The VAMOSC database

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