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B-293098 1 (2004-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapkb0001 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: QuickHire, LLC File: B-293098 Date: January 30, 2004 Christopher R. Yukins, Esq., and Anand V. Ramana, Esq., Holland & Knight, for the protester. Frederick W. Claybrook, Jr., Esq., and Edward R. Murray, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for Allied Technology Group, Inc., an intervenor. George C. Brown, Esq., and Angela E. Clark, Esq., Securities and Exchange Commission, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Evaluation of protester's technical quotation as technically unacceptable was unobjectionable where agency reasonably concluded that quotation failed to demonstrate that it met solicitation requirements. DECISION QuickHire, LLC protests the award of a contract to Allied Technology Group, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SECHQ1-03-Q-0093, issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for Internet-based automated staffing services. QuickHire challenges the evaluation of its technical quotation. We deny the protest.1 The RFQ sought quotations for a commercial, off-the-shelf, Internet-based subscription service integrating position classification, staffing, and recruitment processes into a single, automated, electronic solution for human resources (HR) and workforce management at the SEC. The acquisition contemplated an award under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) and was conducted pursuant to Federal 1 QuickHire has raised additional arguments in a supplemental protest (B-293098.2). We will address these arguments in a separate decision.

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