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GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States


                                              DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

Decision                                    The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                            a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                            been approved for public release.

Matter of: InGenesis, Inc.

File:       B-416564.3

Date:       November 26, 2019

Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., and Bryan R. King, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for the protester.
Craig A. Holman, Esq., Dana E. Koffman, Esq., Michael E. Samuels, Esq., and
Nathaniel E. Castellano, Esq., for STG International, Inc., the intervenor.
Anthony E. Marrone, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency.
Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals is denied where the record
shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable, consistent with the evaluation
criteria, and extensively documented qualitative differences between the proposals.
DECISION

InGenesis, Inc., of San Antonio, Texas, protests the award of a contract by the
Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Occupational Health (FOH)
agency, under personal services request for proposals (RFP) No. 18-233-SOL-00075 to
STG International, Inc. (STGi), of Alexandria, Virginia, for medical and occupational
health professionals. InGenesis contends that the agency improperly assigned its
proposal significant weaknesses and weaknesses under the technical factor,
unreasonably evaluated its proposal and that of the awardee under the past
performance factor, and made an unreasonable best-value determination.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The agency issued the solicitation on February 12, 2018, under the commercial item
procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation part 12. Id. at 1.1 FOH provides

1 Citations to the RFP are to the conformed copy provided by the agency.

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