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B-417111,B-417111.3,B-417111.4 1 (2019-02-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvrs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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: Cognosante, LLC File: B-417111; B-417111.3; B-417111.4 Date: February 21, 2019 C. Joel Van Over, Esq., Alexander Ginsberg, Esq., Meghan Doherty, Esq., and Kevin Massoudi, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., David F. Dowd, Esq., Roger V. Abbott, Esq., and Luke Levasseur, Esq., Mayer Brown LLP, for Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., the intervenor. Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., Tara T. Nash, Esq., and Desiree A. DiCorcia, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's price reasonableness evaluation is sustained, where the record does not demonstrate that the agency evaluated final prices for reasonableness. 2. Protest challenging the agency's award of a strength is sustained, where the strength did not reasonably relate to the elements described in the solicitation. 3. Protest alleging that the agency conducted an unequal evaluation is sustained, where the agency evaluated proposals using differing levels of scrutiny. 4. Protest alleging that the agency engaged in disparate treatment by failing to award strengths to offerors equally for similar aspects of their proposals is denied, where there were substantive differences between the proposals that did not warrant assigning the same strength. 5. Protest alleging that the agency failed to evaluate the risk posed by the awardee's lower labor hours under the fixed-price portion of the solicitation is denied, where the solicitation did not require such an evaluation.

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