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B-291409 1 (2002-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoja0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States 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: AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc. File: B-291409; B-291409.2; Date: December 16, 2002 John E. Jensen, Esq., Shaw Pittman, for the protester. Richard D. Lieberman, Esq., McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, for Worldwide Language Resources, Inc., an intervenor. Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Department of Interior, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly failed to consider that awardee's price proposal is unrealistically low is denied where solicitation contemplated award of a fixed-price contract, and did not provide that realism evaluation would be conducted for purposes of evaluating technical understanding. 2. Protest that, in evaluating awardee's technical proposal, agency failed to consider that certain linguists offered by awardee were currently employed by protester and had signed agreements not to work for any other firm, is denied where source selection official was aware of the agreements and determined that they would have no impact on performance. DECISION AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc (ALC) protests the award of a contract to Worldwide Language Resources, Inc. under a solicitation issued by the Department of the Interior to procure linguists to support the Department of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). ALC asserts that the agency misevaluated Worldwide's technical and price proposals. We deny the protest. Interior issued the solicitation, in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation § 8.404, and the General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), to vendors holding applicable FSS schedule contracts. The solicitation, for a fixed- price, level-of-effort contract, provided for award based on a best value evaluation