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G A 0 Comptroller General
Accountability * 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.
Decision
Matter of: LIS, Inc.
File: B-400646.2; B-400646.3
Date: March 25, 2009
David Z. Bodenheimer, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester.
Clay C. Cook, Esq., and William Robinson, Esq., Deparment of Justice, for the
agency.
Charles W. Morrow, Esq., Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq.,
Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest is sustained in a negotiated procurement, where solicitation required
best-value evaluation and agency failed to document or adequately explain how
awardee's proposal overcame significant weaknesses identified in the initial
evaluation, and failed to document or adequately explain its assessment of the
relative merits of the proposals or perform a comparative assessment of proposals
when making the source selection.
DECISION
LIS, Inc., of Lafayette, Colorado, protests the award of a contract to Labat-Anderson,
Inc., of McLean, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFPCOB-008, issued
by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, for library and information
center services. LIS challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals and the source
selection decision.
We sustain the protest.
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC), which was established by Congress in
1974, provides leadership and assistance in the field of corrections with regard to
training, technical assistance, research and evaluation, policy and standards
formulation and implementation, and clearinghouse services. The NIC contains an
information center that collect[s], prepar[es], and disseminat[es] information on
corrections, including information on prisons, jails, probation, parole, and
community based corrections. The mission for these services is to assist in
improving current policies, practices, standards and procedures through support to
corrections practitioners and policy makers. RFP at 36. A function of the](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadbdq0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)