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B-290788 1 (2002-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaohh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Westar Corporation File: B-290788 Date: September 25, 2002 Terrence J. Strach for the protester. George U. Lane, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that awardee failed to meet solicitation's requirements relating to certification of proposed personnel to perform certain nondestructive testing is denied, where record shows that agency obtained information adequate to demonstrate that personnel in question had necessary certifications at time of award, and protester has submitted no evidence to show that agency's conclusion regarding adequacy of certifications was unreasonable. DECISION Westar Corporation protests the award of a federal supply schedule delivery order to MEVATEC Corporation under solicitation No. 4TWG21024178, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for nondestructive testing services. Westar maintains that MEVATEC does not have personnel that meet the solicitation's certification requirements. We deny the protest. The solicitation required, among other things, that the contractor have three personnel certified at level III for nondestructive testing, in accordance with the requirements of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), for several different testing disciplines. Both the protester and the awardee submitted timely initial and best and final responses to the solicitation. The protester's initial and final submissions both provided: Currently, we do not meet all the certification requirements of this Statement of Work (SOW) paragraph; however, we will take corrective actions over the next few months to remedy this condition. Agency Report (AR), exhs. 3.2, at 4, 4.2 at 4. In contrast, the awardee's submissions provided

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