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B-287505 1 (2001-06-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptampz0001 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: SOS Interpreting, Ltd. File: B-287505 Date: June 12, 2001 J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon & Tolle, for the protester. J. Michael Sawyers, Esq., Drug Enforcement Administration, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Contention that contracting officer's (CO) decision to reject initial evaluations and convene a new technical evaluation panel was designed to ensure that the protester was improperly eliminated from consideration is denied, where there is no evidence in the record that the CO's decisions were not made in good faith or that they were designed with the intent of changing technical rankings or avoiding an award to the protester. 2. Challenge to the exclusion of protester's proposal from the competitive range is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria set forth in the solicitation. DECISION SOS Interpreting, Ltd. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. DEA-00-R-0020, issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for translation, transcription, and related support services for DEA's Chicago Field Division. SOS argues that the contracting officer (CO) unreasonably rejected the initial evaluations of proposals and reconvened a new evaluation panel. The protester also contends that DEA improperly evaluated its proposal and, thus, had no valid basis for eliminating SOS's

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