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B-285396.3 1 (2000-11-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaldk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Digital Imaging Acquisition Networking Associates, Inc. File: B-285396.3 Date: November 8, 2000 Leonard J. Benyak for the protester. Vickie L. Audette for Control Telecom, Inc., an intervenor Barbara H. Vail, Esq., U.S. Customs Service, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency unreasonably evaluated protester's offer is denied where record supports reasonableness of agency's evaluation and source selection. DECISION Digital Imaging Acquisition Networking Associates, Inc. (DIANA) protests the award of a contract to Control Telecom, Inc. (CTI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. CS-00-010, issued by the Department of the Treasury, U.S. Customs Service (USCS) for mobile x-ray services. DIANA argues that the agency's evaluation was flawed and that its offer should have been selected for award. We deny the protest. The RFP explains that current procedures require that when USCS officers have reason to believe that a passenger entering the United States is carrying contraband such as drugs, concealed in their body, these passengers are escorted to nearby medical facilities for x-rays.! Since these facilities typically are located away from the USCS officers' duty stations at international airports, the officers leave their work location, travel to the medical facility and remain with the passenger until an x-ray is performed and interpreted by qualified medical personnel. USCS has 'The agency explains that smugglers swallow pellets containing narcotics or in other ways hide packets of narcotics in their bodies.

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