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B-283743.2 1 (2000-02-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakyh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting 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: AIU North America, Inc. File: B-283743.2 Date: February 16, 2000 William A. Roberts III, Esq., David 0. Ferry, Esq., and William Lieth, Esq., Wiley, Rein & Fielding, for the protester. Michael L. Burack, Esq., and Nicholas Coleman, Esq.,Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, for Ace International, an intervenor. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of this decision. DIGEST 1. Technical evaluation was not consistent with stated evaluation factors where final assessment of technical equality unreasonably excluded from consideration a potentially significant aspect of protester's proposal that fell within the scope of the stated evaluation factors. 2. Agency failed to comply with solicitation requirement that offerors' available corporate resources would be considered as an evaluation factor where corporate entity submitting the successful proposal was acquired by another corporation after final proposals were submitted and before the source selection determination was made, and the source selection authority knew of the acquisition but did not request or obtain any documentation pertaining to the corporate resources of the acquiring corporation. DECISION AIU North America, Inc. protests the Department of State's (DOS) award of a contract to Ace International under solicitation No. S-OPRAQ-98-R-0040 to provide workers' compensation insurance coverage for certain DOS contractors. AIU protests various aspects of the agency's proposal evaluation, the final assessment that all proposals were technically equal, and the resulting award determination. We sustain the protest.

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