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B-291375 1 (2002-11-20)

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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: Innovative Management, Inc.

          File:        B-291375

          Date:        November 20, 2002

          Theodore M. Bailey, Esq., and Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., for the protester.
          Mike Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency.
          John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protester was not prejudiced by agency's alleged loss of protester's original
          transparencies for its oral presentation, where agency provided protester with
          copies of the transparencies that protester used during its oral presentation, and
          nothing in the record suggests that the lack of the original transparencies and use of
          copied transparencies had any effect on the evaluation.
          DECISION

          Innovative Management, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Medical Business
          Consultants (MBC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 232-03-0001, issued by the
          Department of Health and Human Services, for clinical operations services.

          We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

          The RFP, which was restricted to firms certified under the Small Business
          Administration's section 8(a) program, provided for the award of a labor-hour,
          personal services contract for a base period of I year with four 1-year options. RFP
          at 90, 121. The RFP stated that award would be made to the offeror whose proposal
          represented the best value to the government based upon the following evaluation
          factors: technical merit, past performance, and price. The RFP provided that
          technical merit would receive paramount consideration in the agency's award
          determination. RFP at 134.

          The RFP provided that offerors whose proposals had been determined by the agency
          to be in the competitive range would be invited to make oral presentations
          addressing the offerors' Understanding of the Problem and Technical Approach to
          accomplishing the goals and objectives of this solicitation. Offerors were requested

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