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B-311265 1 (2008-05-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavzs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A A Comptroller General of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision .approved for public release. Matter of: Hogar Crea, Inc. File: B-311265 Date: May 27, 2008 Jos6 R. Olmo-Rodrfguez, Esq., Olmo & Rodrfguez Matias, for the protester. Joseph Summerill, Esq., and David P. Goodwin, Esq., Greenberg Traurig LLP, for Volunteers of America, Inc., an intervenor. Carl Jorgensen, Esq., and Bradley J. Breslin, Esq., Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of offerors' technical proposals is denied where record supports reasonableness of the evaluations. 2. Protest challenging the reasonableness of the agency's source selection decision is denied where the record supports the agency's determination that protester's high- priced proposal did not merit award despite offering certain strengths as compared to awardee's proposal. DECISION Hogar Crea, Inc. (HCI) protests the award of a contract to Volunteers of America, Inc. (VOA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 200-0951-SE, issued by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for residential reentry center (RRC) services for federal offenders in the San Juan, Puerto Rico metropolitan area. HCI contends that the BOP's evaluation of the offerors' proposals was unreasonable, and that the source selection decision was flawed. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP sought proposals to provide RRC services through a comprehensive community-based program for offenders who are in the custody of the BOP, the U.S.

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