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B-405504 1 (2011-11-16)

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 SG             AO                                                     Comptroller General
f.Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability                               of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


           Matter of: Dictyon LLC

           File:       B-405504

           Date:       November 16, 2011

           Raffaella Luciani, Dictyon LLC, for the protester.
           Luisa M. Alvarez, Esq., Department of State, for the agency.
           Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           1. Protest that agency applied unstated criteria in its evaluation of protester's
           proposal is denied where the record reflects that the agency's evaluation was
           consistent with terms of solicitation.

           2. Protest that agency failed to exercise required diligence in verifying protester's
           past performance references is denied where the agency reasonably attempted to
           evaluate the past performance information provided in the proposal.
           DECISION

           Dictyon LLC, protests its exclusion from the competitive range by the Department of
           State (DOS), under request for proposals (RFP) No. SFSJAQ11R0031, a total small
           business set-aside for foreign language instruction and testing.

           We deny the protest.

           DOS issued the RFP on June 15, 2011, seeking to establish multiple blanket purchase
           agreements (BPA) with commercial language schools to provide language
           instructors and other specialists capable of teaching, conducting examinations, and
           developing language training materials. The RFP stated that awards would be made
           on the basis of three evaluation factors--technical quality, past performance, and
           price--and that technical quality and past performance, when combined, were equal
           in significance to price. The RFP divided DOS' requirements into six contract line
           item numbers (CLIN): (1) language instructor/curriculum developer, (2) instructor/
           curriculum developer II, (3) language tester, (4) language examiner, (5) lead

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