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B-288466 1 (2001-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamry0001 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: Sun Chemical Corporation File: B-288466; B-288466.2; B-288466.3 Date: October 17, 2001 David D. DiBari, Esq., Carlos E. Provencio, Esq., and Timothy P. Peterson, Esq., Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, for the protester. Scott Arnold, Esq., Harvey G. Sherzer, Esq., and Alan Sutton, Esq., Howrey Simon Arnold & White, for SICPA Securink Corporation, an intervenor. Marvin Kent Gibbs, Esq., Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting agency improperly determined that protester's product failed to meet a mandatory technical evaluation criterion and rejected its proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where the record shows that the agency's determination was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that contracting agency improperly failed to subject awardee's product to the testing required to evaluate that product under all of the solicitation's technical evaluation criteria is academic where the agency, during the pendency of the protest, proposes to take corrective action by completing the testing and evaluation of the awardee's product in accordance with the express terms of the solicitation. DECISION Sun Chemical Corporation protests the award of a contract to SICPA Securink Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. BEP-01-04, issued by the Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), to obtain black and green intaglio ink and varnish for application to new United States paper currency. Sun contends that the BEP improperly determined that its green ink failed to meet a mandatory health and safety technical evaluation criterion and rejected its proposal as technically unacceptable. Sun also contends that the BEP improperly failed to subject SICPA's inks and varnish to the testing required to evaluate its products against all of the solicitation's technical evaluation criteria.

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