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B-407779,B-407779.2 1 (2013-02-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpke0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General SAcc untabI!ityIn t RetLbi ty 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: MVM, Inc. File: B-407779; B-407779.2 Date: February 21, 2013 Michael R. Golden, Esq., Michael A. Hordell, Esq., Heather Kilgore Weiner, Esq., and Samuel W. Jack, Esq., Pepper Hamilton LLP, for the protester. Holly A. Roth, Esq., Howard H. Yuan, Esq., Erin C. Witkow, Esq., and Michael Bhargava, Esq., Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP, for Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Inc., the intervenor. James E. Hicks, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Challenge to agency's evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably evaluated the protester's proposal in accordance with the solicitation's evaluation factors. 2. Agency's selection of higher-rated, higher-priced proposal for award instead of a lower-rated, lower-priced proposal is unobjectionable, where the agency's tradeoff decision adequately documented key discriminators, included the rationale for the tradeoff made, and is reasonably based given the broad discretion afforded source selection officials. 3. Protest that agency relied on incorrect information in its source selection decision is denied where, although the record shows there was an error in the decision, the error related to the lowest-weighted technical evaluation criterion, was not a factor in the agency's tradeoff analysis, and does not raise a reasonable possibility that protester was prejudiced. DECISION MVM, Inc., of Ashburn, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Inc., of New York, New York, the incumbent contractor, by the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),

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