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B-297994 1 (2006-04-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasom0001 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Client Network Services, Inc. File: B-297994 Date: April 28, 2006 William L. Walsh, Jr., Esq., J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., and Peter A. Riesen, Esq., Venable, for the protester. Helaine G. Elderkin, Esq., and Carl J. Peckinpaugh, Esq., Computer Sciences Corporation, for the intervenor. Lee Wolanin, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably downgraded protester's proposal under staffing factor evaluation where proposal did not meet solicitation's formatting requirements with respect to page limits and font size; offerors are required to prepare their proposals within format limitations established in solicitation, and assume risk that proposal pages beyond limits will not be evaluated or that proposal will otherwise be downgraded. DECISION Client Network Services, Inc. (CNSI) protests the Department of Transportation's award of a contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTRT57-05-R-20106, for on-site Transportation Information Project Support (TRIPS) services at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CNSI challenges the evaluation of proposals and the cost/technical tradeoff. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated award of a predominantly cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, with a transition period of up to 90 days and a 5-year base period, to furnish information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) professional services in support of a variety of Volpe Center transportation and logistics projects. The TRIPS contractor is expected to support approximately 75 to 100 projects (on behalf of approximately 20 sponsor organizations) with strategic and detailed technology assessments, requirements analysis, concept development,

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