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B-178295 1 (1973-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaddw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LXA ce CMPFTflOLLER GIEN&RAOrTHE UNITErD TATES f4W AAIN4TOq, !D.C. W548 % 4/ S-18295~ Ortober 318, 1M3 The atch Institution 101 S treat, i 1 t!khington, D. C. 20098 Attentious Timothy L.. nkine Chairmm Gactiemen: This Is in reply to your telefax masuage of April 30, 1973, and subsequent correspondence, protest.ng contract awards .male by the BasAl Business Administratibn (SBA)i pursuant to solicitation No. SBA- 406-.LA-73-1. , The solicitation, for manqemnt end technical aas:lstance to be rendered to individurls for tntorprises pursuant to section 406 of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (42 U.S,90. 2906b), provided for tha award of 24 contracts, each covering a spcocific geographtcal area. All proposals received were submItted for aechnical evaluation, follwing which selection of the successful offerors was made by SA's 406 ( Policy Committee, Although you aubxttted prcposalo for aix create, you did not receive any of tho warda. You assert that a thorough aessesment cf bidder capability was apparently lacking, serious procedural irrogularitios seem to have pet arred, there was an apparent disregard for the otatutory mandate of he 406 program and there s vtrong evidoae to support a racial and ethnic bias in the result of the evaluation. On the basis of thee allegations, you protest all of theoawrsle made by SBA under the inst.nt solicitation. I flowaver, our raview doea not disclose any irregularities or other deficiences tuch'as would invalidato any of the awvrds. The record uhows that all propoaals ware independcnt:ly evaluated by eaeh umber of a 3-man panel In accordance with the evaluation teriteria met forth in the aolicitatio, which provided for evaluation on thq basis of the quilificaitione of the staff propoaed to be used and the previous oxperience and cffectiveness of the offeror in providing the type of services being procured. ThB record further 0hows that for arian 5, 6, 9 and AIl, awards qere made to offorora whose fiopoualm wire rated higher and priced lower ,hau yourpiposal. For area 2, your proposal was .. . p 4

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