About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

B-408410.3 1 (2014-04-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqfx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 




          G     A    O                                                   Comptroller General
r       Accountablity * 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.
           D  e c i s i o n                          L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . ..


           Matter of:   Emergint Technologies, Inc.

           File:        B-408410.3

           Date:        April 4, 2014

           Daniel J. Donohue, Esq., Walter A.l. Wilson, Esq., Claude P. Goddard, Jr., Esq.,
           Steven J. Weber, Esq., and Grace 0. Aduroja, Esq., Polsinelli PC, for the protester.
           David P. Metzger, Esq., and Kristen E. Ittig, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP for DB
           Consulting Group, Inc., the intervenor.
           Scott C. Briles, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency.
           Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the
           General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Source selection authority reasonably selected higher-rated, higher-priced proposal
           for award where he identified technical discriminators between proposals and
           determined that advantages associated with the higher-rated proposal were worth
           the difference in price.
           DECISION

           Emergint Technologies, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, protests the issuance of a task
           order to DB Consulting Group, Inc., of Silver Spring, Maryland, under request for
           task order proposals (RFTOP) No. 2012-IM-001 03, issued by the Centers for
           Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services,
           for information services support for CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease
           Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) in Atlanta, Georgia.' The protester

           1 The RFTOP was issued under CDC's information management services (CIMS)
           indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract No. 200-2010-37211. As the value of
           the task order at issue is in excess of $10 million, this procurement is within our
           jurisdiction to hear protests related to the issuance of task orders under
           multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts. 41 U.S.C.
           § 4106(f)(1)(B).

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

profiles profiles most