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G A 0 Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: Global Business and Legal Services
File: B-290381.2
Date: December 26, 2002
Paula Mullen for the protester.
Marion Cordova, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency.
Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where record shows
that agency evaluated proposal in accordance with the solicitation criteria, and that
its conclusions were reasonable.
DECISION
Global Business and Legal Services protests the rejection of its proposal under
request for proposals (RFP) No. RP-31ME-2-0001, issued by the Rural Development
Agency, Department of Agriculture, for legal services. Global argues that the agency
improperly evaluated its proposal.
We deny the protest.
The RFP, issued February 22, 2002, contemplated the award of multiple
indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for nationwide legal services for a
base year, with 4 option years. The legal services required are specific to the work
performed by the Rural Utilities Service. The RFP required that the contractor, as a
minimum, maintain legal expertise in the following practice areas: corporate, tax,
bankruptcy, project finance, real estate, and energy law applicable to electric
utilities, and stated that [a]dditional expertise in laws applicable to cooperatives,
environmental law and secured transactions may be required. RFP § C.3. 1.
Section L of the RFP required that proposals include key personnel and corporate
resumes, and that the key personnel resumes indicate, among other things,
education, background, recent (within the past 5 years) experience, and specific
professional or technical accomplishments. Under the heading Relevant
Experience, the RFP required that technical proposals include evidence that the](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptaofk0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)