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B-299381 1 (2007-04-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauek0001 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. LexisNexis, Inc. File: B-299381 Date: April 17, 2007 Gad Epstein for the protester. Christopher R. Yukins, Esq., and Kristen E. Ittig, Esq., Arnold & Porter, LLP, for West Publishing Corporation, an intervenor. William C. Love, Esq., National Transportation Safety Board, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency unreasonably found the protester's proposal unacceptable is denied where the record shows that the agency's decision was reasonable. 2. Protest that agency showed favoritism toward awardee by relaxing technical requirements is denied where the record shows that the agency deleted the requirements only after ascertaining that they were already being supplied, through other means, to the end user, and the agency allowed the protester to substitute products to meet certain other technical requirements. 3. Protest that agency failed to make available a material amendment to the solicitation is denied where the record shows that agency posted the amendment to the FedBizOpps website via a hyperlink to another agency website. DECISION LexisNexis, Inc. protests the award of a contract to West Publishing Corporation under solicitation No. NTSBQ070001, issued by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for online legal research services.' The protester alleges that the 'Although the solicitation is identified on its cover page as a request for quotations (RFQ), the term proposals and acronym RFP, for request for proposals, repeatedly appear in, among other things, the solicitation's descriptions of the evaluation factors and award scheme. Given this, and the fact that whether the solicitation is properly considered an RFQ or RFP does not affect the outcome of (continued...)

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