Request for Reconsideration

A firm requested reconsideration of a GAO decision that denied in part and dismissed in part the firm's protest against an Agency for International Development (AID) contract award for modifying and disseminating a computer system. The firm argued that the prior decision should be reversed because the awardee was not sufficiently experienced in the required work, resulting in costly delays in modifying and disseminating the system. The firm also alleged that the awardee was guilty of several misrepresentations concerning its qualifications and that AID was aware of these misrepresentations at the time of proposal evaluation. GAO found that the protesting firm's arguments were essentially restatements of the same arguments used in the prior decision. GAO stated that the protester had presented no new information nor demonstrated any error of fact or law in the prior decision that would warrant modification or reversal. Finally, GAO was not persuaded by the protester's unsupported assertions that the awardee's proposal contained misrepresentations of which AID knew. Accordingly, the prior decision was affirmed.