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B-286161.2 1 (2001-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamls0001 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: SWR Inc. File: B-286161.2 Date: January 24, 2001 Benjamin M. Bowden, Esq., Albrittons, Clifton, Alverson & Moody, for the protester. Robert A. Lincoln, Esq., Library of Congress, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Rejection of protester's proposal as unacceptable because it allegedly did not show specific required experience was unreasonable, where the proposal specifically represented that it had the required experience, the basis for the rejection was the omission of information concerning this experience in documents that were provided by the protester to the agency at a site visit for another purpose and which did not reasonably establish that the protester did not have the experience required, and the alleged deficiency was not identified to the protester during discussions. DECISION SWR, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal and the award of a contract to Telex Communications, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. S-LCO0018, issued by the Library of Congress for the repair of talking book machines. SWR contends that the Library's evaluation of its proposal was unreasonable. We sustain the protest. The RFP provided for the award of a fixed-unit-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite- quantity contract for the repair of talking book machines owned by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped for a base year with four 1-year options. The talking book machines, which were manufactured by Telex, are four-track, microprocessor-controlled, audio-cassette tape players that provide fully automatic playback of cassettes recorded using the Library's special track format. RFP § J.3, Service Manual. Offerors were informed that the Library estimated that 3,000 machines would be repaired and tested each year. RFP § C.3. 1. Performance, design, and test requirements for the machines were also provided. RFP § J. 1, Specification #102.

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