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B-298282 1 (2006-08-10)

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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: Intercon Associates, Inc.

          File:        B-298282; B-298282.2

          Date:        August 10, 2006

          Patrick K. O'Keefe, Esq., and Marianna Lvovsky, Esq., Sidley Austin LLP, for the
          protester.
          Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., David T. Hickey, Esq., and Andrew J. Belofsky, Esq.,
          Greenberg Traurig, LLP, for Information Analysis, Inc., an intervenor.
          John E. Cornell, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
          Scott H. Riback, Esq., David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the
          General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest of agency's evaluation of proposals is sustained where record shows that
          agency, in evaluating protester's proposal and making its source selection decision,
          relied upon numerous unreasonable or unsupported evaluated weaknesses regarding
          the protester's proposal.
          DECISION

          Intercon Associates, Inc. protests the General Services Administration's (GSA)
          award of a contract to Information Analysis, Inc. (IAI), under request for proposals
          (RFP) No. GS-OOV-06PDCOOO1, for an automated electronic forms system software
          package, along with software maintenance and support services. Intercon asserts
          that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection
          decision.

          We sustain the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-
          quantity contract for a base year with four 1-year options, to provide the agency with
          a comprehensive electronic forms system to replace and upgrade its existing
          electronic forms capability. The contemplated system is required to provide full life-
          cycle services, from the creation of an electronic form to its entry into GSA's forms
          system; include all associated software necessary to allow forms users to fill out the

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