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B-418966 1 (2020-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecbc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Analytica, LLC File: B-418966 Date: November 9, 2020 Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Samuel S. Finnerty, Esq., Jonathan I. Pomerance, Esq., and Anna R. Wright, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., and Todd M. Garland, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for RIVA Solutions, Inc., the intervenor. Matthew Walton, Esq., United States Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated quotations for the establishment of blanket purchase agreement is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation criteria. 2. Protest that agency permitted awardee to engage in a bait-and-switch of its program manager is denied where solicitation did not limit substitution of qualified key personnel and where the individual was proposed in good faith and there was intention that he perform. DECISION Analytica LLC, of Washington, D.C., a small business, protests the issuance of a federal supply schedule (FSS) blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to RIVA Solutions, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1231442000034, issued by the Department of Agriculture for commercial Drupal1 content management software services. Analytica argues that Agriculture misevaluated quotations and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest. 1 Drupal is the name of a specific open source content management system.

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