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B-412358,B-412358.2,B-412358.3 1 (2016-01-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrwk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: f\ G A Comptroller General ~ty * Integrity * Rel lability 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. Decision Matter of: Alexander & Tom, Inc. File: B-412358; B-412358.2; B-412358.3 Date: January 21, 2016 Christopher R. Shiplett, Esq., Randolph Law, PLLC, for the protester. John J. O'Brien, Esq., Cohen Mohr, LLC, for TriVision, Inc., an intervenor. Erin Masini, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency's rating of awardee's staffing approach as acceptable was unreasonable is denied where the omission of key personnel names in the consensus evaluation report was clearly a clerical error, and the awardee's quotation in fact included specifically-named key personnel satisfying the solicitation's qualifications requirements. 2. Protest that best-value determination was unreasonable because it was based solely on offerors' proposed prices for the first task order, and not on the prices proposed for the blanket purchase agreement, is denied where had the agency included both prices in the total evaluated prices used in the best-value determination, the awardee's quotation would have remained lower-priced and higher-rated under the non-price factors. DECISION Alexander & Tom, Inc., of Baltimore, Maryland, protests the Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) award of a blanket purchasing agreement (BPA) to TriVision, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SB1 350-15-Q-02352, for integrated marketing services for the International Trade Administration. The protester challenges the evaluation of quotations and the resulting best-value decision. We deny the protest.

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