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B-293336 1 (2004-02-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapkw0001 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: Federal Management Systems, Inc. File: B-293336 Date: February 20, 2004 Keith Calhoun-Senghor, Esq., for the protester. Michael Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where the protester failed to demonstrate that the agency unreasonably rejected its proposal--the only proposal received from a private-sector offeror as part of a cost comparison conducted pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76--as technically unacceptable. DECISION Federal Management Systems, Inc. (FMSI) protests the rejection of its proposal as technically unacceptable under request for proposals (RFP) No. 263-03-P(GK)-0059, issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, for administrative support services for grants application management, program, and review support for NIH facilities in Maryland (Bethesda, Rockville, and Frederick) and in North Carolina (Research Triangle Park).' The RFP was issued pursuant to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76 and the Circular's Revised Supplemental Handbook (RSH) to determine whether it would be more economical to perform the required services in-house or to contract for these services under the referenced RFP. FMSI was the only offeror to submit a proposal in the private-sector portion of this A-76 cost comparison. FMSI argues that the 1 The NIH consists of 20 institutes and 7 centers. FMSI currently provides, or has provided, some of the services required under this RFP at five NIH facilities, all of which are located in Bethesda at the NIH main campus. Source Selection Evaluation Board (SSEB) Report at 6.

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