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B-292788 1 (2003-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General .. . .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Transventures International, Inc. File: B-292788 Date: November 4, 2003 D. John Won for the protester. Sandra M. De Balzo, Esq., Drug Enforcement Administration, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal and exclusion of proposal from competitive range is denied where agency's evaluation and competitive range determination were reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation evaluation criteria. DECISION Transventures International, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) DEA-02-R-0004, issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for language-related services in support of the DEA, Miami Field Division. Transventures contends that the DEA improperly evaluated its proposal. We deny the protest. The DEA explains by way of background that its mission of enforcing the federal narcotics laws requires that the agency have the capability to understand numerous foreign languages so that it can translate, monitor, transcribe, and intercept conversations in connection with the unlawful growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances. See Agency Memorandum of Law at 1. One way the DEA intercepts conversations is through court-ordered nonconsensual telephonic monitoring, termed the Title III program. See RFP § C.2. To ensure its ability to meet these needs, the agency issued the solicitation at issue here, seeking a contractor who shall be responsible for the delivery of all management, supervision and manpower required to perform a variety of language related services including monitoring, translating, transcribing and interpreting services ... . RFP § C.3. The

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