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B-289332 1 (2002-02-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaocr0001 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: Symtech Corporation File: B-289332 Date: February 19, 2002 Donald Hirsch, Esq., for the protester. Mike Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where the record fails to establish that contracting officer had a reasonable basis for excluding protester's proposal from the competitive range. DECISION Symtech Corporation protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range and the award of a contract to MasiMax Resources, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. NO1DA-1-1106, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services for logistical support of science meetings conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). We sustain the protest. The RFP, which was issued as a competitive set-aside for small disadvantaged businesses under the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program,' contemplated the award of a cost-reimbursement contract for a base period of I year and two option periods of 2 years each. The contractor is to organize and provide logistical support for approximately 33 scientific conferences per year. In addition, it is to develop a variety of drug abuse-related publications. 1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a) (2000), authorizes the Small Business Administration to enter into contracts with government agencies and to arrange for the performance of such contracts by letting subcontracts to socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns.

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