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B-400923.4 1 (2009-08-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaym0001 and id is 1 raw text is: li AL A , G A O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: Commercial Design Group, Inc. File: B-400923.4 Date: August 6, 2009 Patricia Meagher, Esq., Rossi & Meagher LLP, for the protester. M.P. Singh, Bara Infoware, Inc., for the intervenor. Isaac Johnson, Jr., Esq., United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where solicitation provided for award to offeror submitting lowest-priced, technically acceptable proposal, protest that agency improperly conducted discussions with offerors other than protester is denied where protester's proposal had already been found technically acceptable and protester was given the opportunity, like all other offerors, to submit a revised proposal after discussions had concluded. 2. Protest challenging evaluation of proposals is denied where the record establishes that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Commercial Design Group, Inc. (CDG), of San Francisco, California, protests the award of a contract to Bara Infoware, Inc., of San Ramon, California, by the United States Coast Guard under solicitation No. HSCG88-08-R-623190, for computer-aided design services. We deny the protest. This protest is CDG's second challenge to an award under this solicitation. CDG first protested the agency's decision to award a contract to another firm under this solicitation in December 2008, on the basis that the awardee's proposed personnel did not meet the solicitation's minimum requirements with regard to experience with Autodesk AutoCAD and Graphisoft ArchiCAD, two software programs used in computer-aided design. That protest was dismissed by our Office on February 2,

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