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B-402415 1 (2010-04-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbgn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: InnovaTech, Inc. File: B-402415 Date: April 8, 2010 Keith R. Malley, Esq., Keith R. Malley, PC, for the protester. Peter A. Deliso, Esq., and Nelson Blitz, Esq., Executive Counsel, PLC, for Guident Technologies, Inc., an intervenor. Lisa J. Obayashi, Esq., United States Patent and Trademark Office, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's technical quotation is denied where record establishes that evaluation was reasonable, consistent with the stated evaluation criteria, and adequately documented. 2. Price/technical tradeoff was proper where source selection official reasonably identified relevant technical distinctions between vendors' competing quotations and adequately documented her conclusion that higher technically-rated quotation represented the best value to the government despite higher price. DECISION InnovaTech, Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the award of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to Guident Technologies, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, under Guident's General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. 10302009 for enterprise data warehouse (EDW) support services. InnovaTech argues that the agency's evaluation of its quotation and subsequent source selection decision were improper. 1 While our decision refers to the award of a BPA, which is the terminology used by the parties, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) in fact refers to the establishment of a BPA against an FSS contract. FAR §§ 8.403(a)(2), 8.404(b).

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