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B-411188 1 (2015-06-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrdu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Rante Corporation File: B-411188 Date: June 1, 2015 Monica Grace Lee, Esq., Rante Corporation, for the protester. Navid Mehrjou, Esq., Lori Larson, Esq., Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, for the agency. Young S. Lee, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's rejection of an unsolicited proposal is dismissed where GAO will not generally review a protest which would mandate an agency accept an unsolicited proposal and procure from the firm on a sole-source basis. DECISION Rante Corporation, of New York, New York, protests the Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) decision to reject Rante's unsolicited proposal. The protester alleges that the agency's evaluation of its unsolicited proposal was flawed, and contends that the IRS is required to issue it a $200 million sole-source award. In response, the IRS explains that it properly evaluated and rejected the protester's unsolicited proposal. We dismiss the protest. Rante submitted an unsolicited proposal to the agency to provide the IRS with the appropriate tools to address IRS technology limitations with regard to foreign account and asset reporting.' AR, Tab 4, Rante's Proposal, at 47-48. The IRS 1 Although the unsolicited proposal's focus was on foreign account and asset reporting, Rante claims that the solutions it offered could be used for a variety of other purposes. AR, Tab 4, Rante's Proposal, at 100. For example, the unsolicited proposal stated that it could be used to address technological challenges related to (continued...)

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