The acquisition was intended to fulfill the agency's objective of procuring an ARS for the Justice Management Division that would support its personnel office and adhere to all DOJ security requirements a second purpose was to have a contract vehicle in place that other components of DOJ could use to acquire the same ARS.

In general terms, an ARS allows electronic creation of position descriptions, electronic posting of vacancy announcements, on-line and automated submission of employment applications, tracking of employment applications, automated generation of certificates of eligible applicants, and other staffing-related capabilities. The procurement was for an automated recruiting system (ARS) and front-end personnel action request system for DOJ.

Allied argues that the agency's evaluation of vendors' quotations and source selection decision were improper. DJJV-0 for an automated integrated staffing, recruitment, and position classification system. Protester is not an interested party to challenge the agency's price and technical evaluations and subsequent source selection determination where protester would be ineligible for selection even if protest of evaluation were sustained.Īllied Technology Group, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests the issuance of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to Monster Government Solutions, LLC (MGS), of McLean, Virginia, under MGS' General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. Protester's quotation submitted in response to a solicitation issued for a solution to automate the agency's personnel recruitment and hiring processes that took various exceptions to material terms and conditions of the solicitation was reasonably found unacceptable by the agency.ģ. Protest that agency improperly conducted discussions with awardee is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency properly limited its exchanges with the awardee to permissible clarifications.Ģ. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.ġ. Hansen, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Goodwin, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, for Monster Government Solutions, LLC, an intervenor. Denault, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester.

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