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B-287460 1 (2001-06-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptampr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: EAA Capital Company, L.L.C. File: B-287460 Date: June 19, 2001 Bernard S. Oleniacz for the protester. Jud E. McNatt, Esq., Department of Housing & Urban Development, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST An agency determination to exclude proposal from the competitive range is unobjectionable where agency concluded, on the basis of evaluation which was reasonable and consistent with solicitation evaluation criteria, that proposal had no reasonable chance of being selected for award. DECISION EAA Capital Company, L.L.C. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. R-ATL-01629, issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for services in connection with home mortgage loans which originated at the Single Family Homeownership Center (HOC) located in Atlanta, Georgia. EAA contends that HUD failed to evaluate its proposal according to the terms of the solicitation and thereby improperly excluded EAA's proposal from the competitive range. We deny the protest. On December 7, 2000, HUD issued this RFP to obtain one or more contractors to perform post endorsement technical reviews to be conducted for two geographic areas under the jurisdiction of the Atlanta HOC. These technical reviews are for the purpose of determining the accuracy and the quality of the closing documents, the mortgage credit documentation/underwriting as well as to identify the degree of risk, if any, present in each case file insured. RFP at C.3(a). The RFP contemplated the award of an indefinite-quantity contract with fixed-priced line items for a base year and four 1-year options. The RFP stated that technical factors were more important than price; and that, among the technical factors, management and oversight

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