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B-404619,B-404619.2,B-404619.3 1 (2011-03-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbss0001 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: Hurricane Consulting, Inc. File: B-404619; B-404619.2; B-404619.3 Date: March 17, 2011 John S. Pachter, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., and M. Clay Hamrick, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Claude P. Goddard, Esq., Daniel J. Donohue, Esq., and Sarah M. Graves, Esq., Husch Blackwell LLP, for Longview-FedConsulting JV, the intervenor. Mark A. Allen, Esq., and Barbara Walthers, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated protester's proposed staffing and failed to provide meaningful discussions about staffing is denied where discussions informed protester of the agency's concerns over the proposed lower staffing level, and the contemporaneous evaluation record for the protester's final proposal revision demonstrated a reasonable basis for downgrading the protester's proposal where evaluators questioned the protester's explanation and viewed its lower staffing as only minimally adequate. 2. Protest grounds arguing that successful vendor's joint venture was not a properly constituted service-disabled veteran owned small business joint venture, and therefore the agency should have rejected the successful vendor's proposal, are dismissed where the essence of the protest is a matter of small business status, for which protest jurisdiction is reserved to the Small Business Administration, not GAO. DECISION Hurricane Consulting, Inc. (HCI), doing business as HCI Integrated Solutions, of Fairfax, Virginia, a small business, protests the issuance of a task order to Longview- FedConsulting JV (LVFC JV), of Rockville, Maryland by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), under task

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