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B-419848.3,B-419848.4,B-419848.5 Jun 06, 2022 1 (2022-06-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaonmg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Guidehouse LLP File: B-419848.3; B-419848.4; B-419848.5 Date: June 6, 2022 Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Tara L. Ward, Esq., J. Ryan Frazee, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., and Adam R. Briscoe, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., and Rhina M. Cardenal, Esq., Cordatis LLP, for Deloitte Consulting LLP, the intervenor. Nicole S. Hutchinson, Esq., Paulina Valanty, Esq., and Jessica Chen, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging awardee's alleged impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is sustained where the agency's OCI analysis was unreasonable, and mistakenly focused upon whether the two work efforts were similar in size and scope rather than whether the awardee would be in a position to review its own work. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's technical quotation is denied where the assigned weaknesses were reasonable, consistent with the stated evaluation criterion, and adequately documented. 3. Protest challenging that the agency failed to evaluate whether awardee's prices were unbalanced is denied where the protester fails to make a showing that one or more of the awardee's line item prices were significantly overstated and where the agency's evaluation of the awardee's price was reasonable. 4. Protest challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff source selection decision is sustained where the agency failed to adequately document or explain why the awardee's technical advantages justified paying the price premium associated with that quotation.

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