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B-293012 1 (2004-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapjb0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Locus Technology, Inc. File: B-293012 Date: January 16, 2004 Ragnhild Larkins 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 challenging proposal evaluation is sustained where record reveals that agency failed to consider significant portions of protester's revised proposal in its evaluation and failed to consider offerors' prices in source selection decision. DECISION Locus Technology, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal and the issuance of a purchase order to Topaz Technologies, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. NHLBI-PS-2002-105, issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for animal facility management software for NIH's Veterinary Research Program (VRP). We sustain the protest. The RFP, which was originally issued on August 21, 2002, sought commercially available software to assist the VRP in managing its animal facilities and resources. The RFP specified required functionalities of the software pertaining to animal health, animal husbandry, animal husbandry reporting, animal procurement, protocol management, protocol reporting, billing for services, query, and additional functionality. For example, under the heading animal husbandry, the RFP required the ability to collect data on animal holding; to create a species room inventory; to enter census records manually; and to scan, track and report census data electronically from a barcode reading device. The solicitation instructed offerors to format their technical proposals to clearly identify that the proposed commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) 'Animal

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