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B-414907 1 (2017-10-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtwv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G U.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: Equifax Information Services, LLC File: B-414907 Date: October 16, 2017 Megan M. Jeschke, Esq., and Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Amy L. O'Sullivan, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., Monica R. Sterling, Esq., and Robert A. Burton, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the intervenor. Holly H. Styles, Esq., and Jonathan D. Tepper, Esq., Internal Revenue Service, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of an awardee's quotation is denied where the awardee's quotation met the solicitation's technical requirements and the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. DECISION Equifax Information Services, LLC (Equifax), of Lanham, Maryland, the incumbent contractor, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Experian Information Solutions (Experian), of Costa Mesa, California, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. TIRNO-1 7-Q-00047 issued by the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for taxpayer identity and verification services. Equifax challenges the agency's evaluation of the awardee's quotation. We deny the protest.

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