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B-292624 1 (2003-10-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyme0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General . . Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: KPMG LLP File: B-292624 Date: October 27, 2003 Edward J. Tolchin, Fettmann, Tolchin & Majors, for the protester. James J. McCullough, Esq., Deneen J. Melander, Esq., and Wendy P. Fischman, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for Deloitte & Touche LLP, the intervenor. John A. Carlo, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that vendor's quotation should have been rejected for failure to satisfy alleged solicitation requirement to provide labor rates under a specific labor category is denied where the solicitation did not contain mandatory labor categories, but rather invited vendors to determine the labor mix with which they proposed to fulfill the solicitation performance requirements. DECISION KPMG LLP protests the issuance under the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to Deloitte & Touche LLP, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SSA-RFQ-03-0290, issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA). KPMG contends that Deloitte & Touche's quotation should have been rejected as noncompliant with the solicitation requirements. We deny the protest. SSA issued the RFQ on March 31, 2003, for contract services to conduct reviews of SSA's financial management systems and management controls, and special studies of selected financial management functions for the agency's chief financial officer. The RFQ sought quotes by April 29, and contemplated the issuance of a BPA, under the vendor's current FSS contract, under which subsequent task orders will be issued, for a base year with 4 option years. Selection was to be made on a best value basis with the evaluation criteria consisting of technical acceptability and experience, which were equal in importance; past performance, which was less

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