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B-290946 1 (2002-10-21)

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          G    A     0                                                  Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity* Reliability                                 of the United States
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: OCR Services, Inc.

          File:        B-290946

          Date:        October 21, 2002

          Charles M. Tobin, Esq., Jeffrey S. Newman, Esq., Rachael C. Danish, Esq., and Kristin
          G. Hughes, Esq., Foley & Lardner, for the protester.
          Mike Colvin, Department of Health & Human Services, for the agency.
          Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's technical proposal and
          selection of awardee's higher-rated proposal for award is denied, where protester
          has not shown the agency's evaluation and source selection decision to be
          unreasonable.
          DECISION

          OCR Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Brogan & Partners
          Convergence Marketing under request for proposals (RFP) No. 273-02-P-0004, issued
          by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), for services
          supporting the NIEHS Health Information Services Project. OCR, the incumbent
          contractor, challenges the agency's technical evaluation and source selection
          decision.

          We deny the protest.

          NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) publish a number of documents,
          including the Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) journal, the Reports on
          Carcinogens, and the NTP's Technical Report Series (consisting of toxicology,
          carcinogenesis, and toxicity reports). RFP Statement of Work (SOW) at 1. These
          publications are available to subscribers in hard-copy and electronically on-line from
          a comprehensive on-line environmental health information service maintained by
          NIEHS. The agency anticipates that the revenue generated from orders for the
          subscriptions to the EHP journals and other NIEHS documents will offset the cost of

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