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B-298380.3 1 (2006-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasqf0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Avue Technologies Corp., Carahsoft Technology Corp. File: B-298380.3 Date: November 15, 2006 Frederick W. Claybrook, Jr., Esq., David C. Hammond, Esq., and Brian T. McLaughlin, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for the protesters. Lori R. Larson, Esq., and Richard M. Sudder II, Esq., Internal Revenue Service, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Clauses pertaining to data rights included in a solicitation issued for a solution to automate the agency's personnel recruitment and hiring processes do not violate applicable regulations where they only seek to protect the government's rights in government data pertaining to the government's personnel recruitment and hiring processes. 2. Solicitation providing for the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for a solution to automate the agency's personnel recruitment and hiring processes, which requests that offerors provide fixed prices and provides for the evaluation of those prices, reasonably considers cost to the government; the fact that the solicitation does not also provide for the evaluation of other collateral agency personnel cost savings that the protesters claim will be achieved through the use of its automated service is unobjectionable. DECISION Avue Technologies Corp. and Carahsoft Technology Corp. protest the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. DHS-06-IRS05, issued by the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for a solution to automate DHS's recruitment and hiring processes. 'According to the record, Avue is a provider of automated services such as those being solicited here, Carahsoft is a reseller of Avue's product, and both are (continued...)

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