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B-299307.4 1 (2007-07-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaudw0001 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: Panacea Consulting, Inc. File: B-299307.4; B-299308.4 Date: July 27, 2007 Lars E. Anderson, Esq., J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., Peter A. Riesen, Esq., and Keir X. Bancroft, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Lawrence E. Carr, Esq., Dana G. Theriot, Esq., and Justin T.Banford, Esq., Carr, Morris & Graeff, PC, and Eric J. Marcotte, Esq., Winston & Strawn, LLP, for Systems Integration & Development, Inc., an intervenor. Herman J. Narcho, Esq., Department of Labor, 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 that agency's evaluation and source selection decisions are unreasonable is sustained where record lacks any meaningful explanation for evaluation scores and source selection decisions. DECISION Panacea Consulting, Inc. protests the issuance of two task orders to Systems Integration and Development, Inc. (SID) under solicitation Nos. FY07FA1-64079E446- 0001 (solicitation 446) and FY07FA3-64079E448-001 (solicitation 448), issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) for, respectively, project management support services and core research and development support services. Panacea asserts that the agency made errors in its evaluation of submissions and in its selection decisions. We sustain the protest. The solicitations contemplated the issuance of task orders under the successful vendor's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract for a base year, with four 1-year options, to perform various professional services on an as-needed basis.' For 1 The agency, citing 41 U.S.C. § 253j(d) (2000) (which generally prohibits protests against the issuance of a task or delivery order under indefinite-delivery, indefinite- quantity contracts), asserts that our Office lacks jurisdiction to consider these (continued...)

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