B-291533: Jan 13, 2003

SKJ & Associates, Inc. protests the award of a purchase order to Policy Research Associates, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 02M000077, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for intensive training in the social security income application process. SKJ contends that the agency's evaluation was not in accordance with the evaluation criteria.We sustain the protest...

B-291533: Jan 13, 2003

DIGEST Agency did not have a reasonable basis to reject the protester's quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) for training services where the RFQ required submission of a technical proposal but gave no guidance as to its content or how it would be evaluated. The agency then rejected the proposal as "unresponsive" because it was too short and too general and failed to provide evidence that t...