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B-420900 Oct 21, 2022 1 (2022-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaonuj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: WorldWide Language Resources, Inc. File: B-420900 Date: October 21, 2022 Anne B. Perry, Esq., Katie A. Calogero, Esq., and Daniel J. Alvarado, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for the protester. Major Nhu T. Tran and Lieutenant Colonel Seth B. Ritzman, Department of the Army, for the agency. Michael P. Grogan, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the terms of the solicitation as ambiguous or inadequately detailed is denied where the solicitation provides sufficient information to allow offerors to intelligently draft proposals. 2. Protest that the solicitation's evaluation scheme improperly fails to consider the cost of Defense Base Act insurance in the total evaluated price is denied where the agency reasonably believes that initial costs would not be reflective of true costs over the life of the contract. 3. Protest that the solicitation unreasonably fails to consider offerors' past performance is denied where agency reasonably exercised its discretion in not examining offerors' past performance at the task-order level. DECISION WorldWide Language Resources, Inc., of Fayetteville, North Carolina, protests the terms of request for task order proposals (RTOP) No. W911W4-22-R-CENT2, issued by the Department of the Army, for foreign language interpretation, translation, and transcription services. The protester contends the solicitation is ambiguous and inconsistent, does not allow all offerors to compete on an equal basis or otherwise intelligently prepare proposals, impermissibly excludes certain insurance costs in the cost/price evaluation, and unreasonably fails to consider past performance. We deny the protest.

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