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B-293435.4 1 (2005-03-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqsf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Career Quest, a division of Syllan Careers, Inc. File: B-293435.4 Date: March 31, 2005 Darcy Hennessy, Esq., Moore Hennessy & Freeman, PC, for the protester. John E. Cornell, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest raising various challenges to agency's conduct of a cost comparison study pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 is denied where record shows that preparation of agency's most efficient organization, and evaluation thereof, were reasonable and consistent with solicitation's performance work statement and applicable guidance. DECISION Career Quest, a division of Syllan Careers, Inc. (CQ) protests the General Services Administration's (GSA) determination that it would be more economical to continue to perform services in-house at the agency's National Customer Support Center for Federal Supply Schedule users (NCSC) than to contract for the services with CQ under request for proposals (RFP) No. TFTP-MN-03-R-0001, issued pursuant to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76.' CQ maintains that the agency's cost comparison improperly failed to account for all of the costs that will be required for in-house performance. We deny the protest. This is the second occasion where we have considered GSA's actions in connection with this A-76 cost comparison study. The agency announced in August 2002 that it 1 The procedures applicable for determining whether the government should perform an activity in-house or by a contractor are set forth in OMB Circular A-76 and that Circular's Revised Supplemental Handbook (RSH) (March 1996). Although the Circular was revised in May 2003, that revision was not applicable to this cost comparison.

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