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B-402026 1 (2009-12-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbbq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General KWn , Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Divakar Technologies, Inc. File: B-402026 Date: December 2, 2009 Raj Divakar for the protester. Yavuz Arik for SKY, LLC, an intervenor. Michael I. Goulding, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly evaluated successful vendor under experience/past performance factor is denied where the agency reasonably considered the experience and past performance of the awardee's key personnel even though they had been employed by other firms at the time, and where the evaluation was otherwise reasonable and consistent with evaluation criteria in solicitation. DECISION Divakar Technologies, Inc., of Bethesda, Maryland, a small business, protests the award of a contract to SKY, LLC, of Rockville, Maryland, by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SAMHSA10356 for services to improve accessibility of the website of the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Divakar argues that HHS misevaluated SKY under the RFQ's experience/past performance factor. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND HHS issued the RFQ as a commercial item solicitation on August 24, 2009. The RFQ described the scope of work as reviewing the existing OAS web site, outlining potential short-term, long-term, and sustainable improvements, implementing the

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