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B-287019.2 1 (2001-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamog0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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: S3 LTD File: B-287019.2; B-287019.3; B-287021.2; B-287021.3 Date: September 14, 2001 Robert A. Klimek, Esq., Nicholas H. Cobbs, Esq., and Darrell Craft, Esq., Klimek, Kolodney & Casale, for the protester. Daniel R. Weckstein, Esq., Michael L. Sterling, Esq., Walter T. Camp, Esq., and David W. Lannetti, Esq., Vandeventer Black, for MANCON, Inc., an intervenor. Philip E. Adams, Esq., Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest contention that an agency conducted misleading discussions by orally changing the terms of the solicitation is denied because, even if the agency made the claimed change, offerors cannot reasonably rely on an oral modification to a solicitation which is inconsistent with its written terms, absent a written amendment, or confirmation of the modification, as required by Federal Acquisition Regulation § 15.206(f). 2. Protester's assertion that an awardee's outstanding past performance rating is unreasonable as it was partially based on the responses of an agency reference who provided a photocopy of identical performance ratings and narrative responses as an answer to a request for his assessment of the awardee's performance under each of four separate contracts is denied where the record shows that, while the reference's approach was less than ideal, his answers were consistent with the answers of other references, and consistent with his responses in a telephonic interview conducted by the contract specialist, and where there is no showing that the photocopied responses were inaccurate for any of the four contracts. DECISION S3 LTD protests the award of two contracts to MANCON, Inc., by the Department of the Navy's Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Jacksonville, Florida, pursuant to requests for proposals (RFP) Nos. N68836-00-R-0012 and N68836-00-R-0025, for personnel support services. S3 argues that the Navy failed to hold meaningful

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