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B-287608 1 (2001-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamqj0001 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: Bank of America File: B-287608; B-287608.2 Date: July 26, 2001 Eugene D. Gulland, Esq., John B. Denniston, Esq., Alan A. Pemberton, Esq., Timothy J. Keefer, Esq., and Siobhan E. Dupuy, Esq., Covington & Burling, for the protester. Rand L. Allen, Esq., Philip J. Davis, Esq., Phillip H. Harrington, Esq., Kevin J. Maynard, Esq., and Derek A. Yeo, Esq., Wiley, Rein & Fielding, for National City Bank of Indiana, an intervenor. John F. Ruoff, Esq., Defense Finance and Accounting Service, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where agency knew or should have known that the protester interpreted the solicitation as limiting technical proposals to 100 pages, discussions with the protester were not meaningful when the agency did not advise protester that the solicitation permitted 200 page proposals, declined to advise the protester of the agency's repeatedly expressed concerns that the protester's proposal lacked detail, and advised the protester there were no technical weaknesses in its proposal. DECISION Bank of America (BOA) protests the award of a contract by the Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), to National City Bank of Indiana (NCB) under request for proposals (RFP) No. MDA210-00-R-CPB3 to provide banking services for U.S. personnel stationed overseas. BOA protests that NCB's technical proposal failed to comply with the RFP's page limitation provision, that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions, and that the agency's cost and technical evaluations were materially flawed. We sustain the protest due to the agency's lack of meaningful discussions.

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