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B-404844.7 1 (2012-02-29)

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           G   A    O                                                 Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                              of the United States
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                                                   The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                                   a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
          Decision                                [beenapproved forpublic release.



          Matter of:  The Emergence Group

          File:       B-404844.7

          Date:       February 29, 2012

          Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Puja Satiani, Esq., and James G. Peyster, Esq., Crowell &
          Moring LLP, for the protester.
          Richard J. Conway, Esq., Michael J. Slattery, Esq., and Pablo A. Nichols, Esq.,
          Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for FedSys, Inc.; John R. Tolle, Esq., and Bryan R. King,
          Esq., Barton, Baker,Thomas & Tolle, LLP for Global Criminal Justice Solutions,
          LLC; and William K. Walker, Esq., Walker Reausaw, for Bering Straits and Orion
          Management Joint Venture, the intervenors.
          Kathleen D. Martin, Esq., Department of State, for the agency.
          Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest of past performance evaluation is sustained where the agency's past
          performance evaluation was unreasonable and not conducted in accordance with
          the solicitation's evaluation scheme.
          DECISION

          Emergence Group Advisors, LLC d/b/a The Emergence Group (TEG), of
          Washington, D.C., protests the award of contracts to BlueLaw International, LLC of
          Alexandria, Virginia; Bering Straits and Orion Management Joint Venture (BSOM),
          of Springfield, Virginia; Team Crucible, of Fredericksburg, Virginia; FedSys, Inc., of
          Arlington, Virginia; and Global Criminal Justice Solutions, LLC (GCJS), of McLean,
          Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SAQMMA1 CR0079, issued by the
          Department of State (DOS), for criminal justice program support (CJPS). TEG
          challenges the DOS's past performance evaluation.


We sustain the protest.

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