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B-298394.3 1 (2006-11-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasqh0001 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: Phyllis M. Chestang File: B-298394.3 Date: November 20, 2006 Phyllis M. Chestang for the protester. Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., U.S. Small Business Administration, for the agency. Nora K. Doolin, Esq., and John L. Formica, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal as poor overall was reasonable where the protester's proposal, submitted in response to a solicitation for home and business loan processing, failed to provide information specifically requested by the solicitation and necessary for evaluation purposes. DECISION Phyllis M. Chestang protests the failure to be awarded a contract under solicitation No. SBAHQ-06-Q-0004, issued by the Small Business Administration (SBA) for home and business loan processing to support SBA's response to disaster recovery. We deny the protest. The RFP provided for multiple awards of fixed-price contracts with reimbursable items for a base period of I year with four 1-year option periods. The successful 1 Although the solicitation is identified in its cover page as a request for quotations (RFQ), the term proposals and acronym RFP repeatedly appear in, among other things, the solicitation's proposal preparation instructions and descriptions of the evaluation factors and award scheme. Given this, as well as the agency's view that the solicitation was intended to be a request for proposals (RFP), and the fact that whether the solicitation is properly considered an RFQ or RFP does not affect the outcome of this protest, we refer to the solicitation in this decision as an RFP and the firm's submissions as proposals for the sake of clarity.

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