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B-421723.2,B-421723.3 Oct 16, 2023 1 (2023-10-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaopjp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 D@cisionI a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has / 7been approved for public release. Matter of: LPE Strategy, LLC File: B-421723.2; B-421723.3 Date: October 16, 2023 Sofia Tabriz, Esq., Stuart W. Turner, Esq., and Julia Swafford, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, for the protester. Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for MPZA, LLC, the intervenor. Eno-Obong J. Essien, Esq., Martin McEnrue, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably evaluated protester's and awardee's proposals pursuant to the terms of the solicitation, and reasonably determined that payment of the price premium associated with protester's proposal was not warranted by the slight superiority of its proposed technical approach. DECISION LPE Strategy, LLC, of Silver Spring, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to MPZA, LLC, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. 75F40123R00015, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for data management services. Protest at 1-3.1 LPE challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals under the RFP's non-price evaluation factors, and asserts that the source selection decision was unreasonable. We deny the protest. 1 Page number citations in this decision refer to the Adobe PDF page numbers in the documents submitted.

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