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B-287477 1 (2001-06-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptampv0001 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 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: W R Systems, Ltd. File: B-287477; B-287477.3 Date: June 29, 2001 John A. Howell, Esq., and Anne K. Shukis, Esq., Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, for the protester. J. Michael Sawyers, Esq., Drug Enforcement Administration, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Contention that contracting officer's (CO) decision to reject initial evaluations and convene a new technical evaluation panel was designed to ensure that the protester was improperly eliminated from consideration is denied, where there is no evidence in the record that the CO's decisions were not made in good faith or that they were designed with the intent of changing technical rankings or avoiding an award to the protester. 2. Allegation that protester was prejudiced because in preparing its proposal it assumed that offerors were prohibited from proposing certain individuals as core personnel on the basis of their work history is denied where the solicitation did not impose any restrictions, limits, or prohibitions on the individuals that could be proposed to fill the required core positions due to their prior work. 3. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of awardee's past performance is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria set forth in the solicitation. DECISION W R Systems, Ltd. (WRS) protests the award of a contract to Comprehensive Technologies, Inc. (CTI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DEA-00-R-0013, issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for monitoring, translation, transcription, linguistic data analysis, and technical support services. WRS challenges the award on several grounds, including that DEA: (1) unreasonably decided to reject the initial evaluations and convene an entirely new evaluation panel; (2) failed to downgrade CTI's proposal for proposing personnel it could not

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