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B-298102 1 (2006-06-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasow0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: GC Services Limited Partnership File: B-298102; B-298102.3 Date: June 14, 2006 James J. McCullough, Esq., Deneen J. Melander, Esq., and Steven A. Alerding, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for the protester. Charles R. Marvin, Jr., Esq., Sharon A. Jenks, Esq., and Carol F. Westmoreland, Esq., Venable LLP, for The CBE Group, Inc.; Scott M. Heimberg, Esq., Thomas P. McLish, Esq., and Andrea T. Vavonese, Esq., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, for Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP; and William L. Walsh, Jr., Esq., Scott Hommer III, Esq., Peter A. Riesen, Esq., and Keir X. Bancroft, Esq., Venable LLP, for Pioneer Credit Recovery, Inc., the intervenors. Richard M. Sudder II, Esq., H.R. Roberson, Esq., and Lori R. Larson, Esq., Internal Revenue Service, and Thedlus L. Thompson, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agencies. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's challenge to agency's technical evaluation of its quotation in response to solicitation for private debt collection services is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION GC Services Limited Partnership protests the issuance of task orders to The CBE Group, Inc., Pioneer Credit Recovery, Inc., and Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP under request for quotations (RFQ) No. TIRNO-05-Q-00187, by the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for private debt collection services. GC Services challenges the IRS's evaluation of its quotation, the evaluation of Linebarger's quotation, as well as the IRS's alleged failure to make a proper affirmative determination of responsibility for Linebarger. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

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