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B-271713 1 (1996-07-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaefq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Carol Solomon & Associates File: B-271713 Date: July 19, 1996 Carol W. Solomon for the protester. Robert A. Lincoln, Esq., Library of Congress, for the agency. Christine Davis, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly evaluated the protester's high-priced quotation and the awardee's low-priced quotation as essentially technically equal in a procurement for a training course on writing, where the teaching experience of the awardee's proposed instructor was roughly comparable to that of the protester's proposed instructors. DECISION Carol Solomon & Associates (CS&A) protests the award of a contract to WordMasters Writing Consultants, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 96-P-28, issued by the Library of Congress for a training course on writing. We deny the protest. The Library issued the RFQ to three firms, including WordMasters and CS&A.1 The RFQ requested fixed-price quotes to teach a Writing Essentials course to approximately 80 students. The students were administrative, clerical, and support staff of the Library, who had completed an introductory Essentials of English course taught by the protester. The Writing Essentials course was for an additional 24 hours of instruction, broken down into several sessions. Classes were to include 20 students each and were to be held during the period from April 1 through June 15, 1996. 'Although the Library, as a legislative branch agency, is not subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), see 41 U.S.C. § 253(a)(1)(A) (1994), the Library reports that it conducted the acquisition guided by the simplified acquisition procedures of part 13 of the FAR. 212719

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