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B-293518 1 (2004-03-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaple0001 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: Information Ventures, Inc. File: B-293518; B-293518.2 Date: March 29, 2004 Bruce H. Kleinstein, Esq., for the protester. Mike H. Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that published synopsis expressing an agency's intent to award a sole-source contract under simplified acquisition procedures was improper because the synopsis lacked necessary information is sustained where the synopsis did not accurately describe the agency's requirements. DECISION Information Ventures, Inc. protests the proposed award of a sole-source contract to the National Council on Aging (NCOA) under purchase request No. 04M000050, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for educating health and social service providers on the Get Connected Toolkit. Information Ventures challenges the propriety of the agency's synopsis of the procurement. We sustain the protest. On December 16, 2003, HHS published a notice on the Federal Business Opportunities website (www.fedbizopps.gov) expressing its intent to award a sole- source contract to NCOA to educate health and social services providers on the Get Connected Toolkit using simplified acquisition procedures. The notice stated, in relevant part: The specific objective of this procurement is to plan and convene a conference aimed at the increasing aging services providers' knowledge around substance abuse and mental health issues facing older adults, and to teach them how to apply the Get Connected Toolkit in real life settings. The toolkit provides strategies to link

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