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B-407478.4 1 (2013-07-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpqb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General . cc ontrn! bity Infgilty, ReliabiIty of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Information Ventures, Inc. File: B-407478.4 Date: July 17, 2013 Bruce H. Kleinstein, Esq., for the protester. Jason A. Blindauer, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of quotations is denied where the source selection official did not rely upon point scores but considered the quotations' underlying technical merits in reaching a source selection decision. Protester mistakenly assumed that a quotation with no identified weaknesses for a particular factor automatically warranted a perfect point score for that factor. 2. Protester was not competitively prejudiced where the source selection official expressly acknowledged the superiority of protester's proposal for the past performance factor, even though the agency committed an error by misplacing a highly favorable questionnaire that might have resulted in a higher point score for protester under that factor. DECISION Information Ventures, Inc., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to AlphaTRAC Inc., of Westminster, Colorado, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. NIHLM2012396, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes for Health, National Library of Medicine, for services supporting the agency's chemical hazards emergency medical management (CHEMM) website. The protester challenges the evaluation of its quotation. We deny the protest.

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