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B-414103.2,B-414103.3,B-414103.4 1 (2017-04-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtiv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Verdi Consulting, Inc. File: B-414103.2; B-414103.3; B-414103.4 Date: April 26, 2017 Damien C. Specht, Esq., Ethan E. Marsh, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and R. Locke Bell, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester. Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., and Michael E. Stamp, Esq., Protorae Law PLLC, for the intervenor. Gabriel G. Lopez, Esq., Department of Housing and Urban Development, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where the agency's evaluation of the protester's past performance was inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation and inadequately documented. 2. Protest is sustained where the agency's price evaluation failed to evaluate offerors' option year prices contrary to the terms of the solicitation and where the record was inadequately documented. 3. Protest of an agency's source selection decision is sustained where the best-value tradeoff was based on unreasonable and inadequately documented evaluations. DECISION Verdi Consulting, Inc. (Verdi), of McLean, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Falcon Capital Advisors, LLC (Falcon), of Washington, D.C., under request for proposals (RFP) No. DU208WR-16-R-0001, issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for financial operations services. Verdi challenges its past performance evaluation, as well as the agency's evaluation of price and the best-value tradeoff. We sustain the protest.

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