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B-409687,B-409687.2 1 (2014-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqlc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 Decision [e for pic release. Matter of: Risk Analysis and Mitigation Partners File: B-409687; B-409687.2 Date: July 15, 2014 Stuart B. Nibley, Esq., Andrew N. Cook, Esq., John P. Estep, Esq., Amy M. Conant, Esq., and Kirstin D. Dietel, Esq., K&L Gates LLP, for the protester. Richard J. Conway, Esq., and Erin Wilcox Burns, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for STARR; and Richard B. O'Keeffe, Jr., Esq., William A. Roberts, III, Esq., and Samantha S. Lee, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for The Compass PTS, Joint Venture, the intervenors. Jeffrey D. Webb, Esq., and KalMarie Rawald, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency used unstated evaluation criteria in assessing weaknesses in the protester's proposal is sustained where the agency's evaluation was based on criteria that offerors could not have reasonably known to address in their proposals. DECISION Risk Analysis and Mitigation Partners (RAMP), of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the evaluation and nonselection of its qualification statement for negotiation of an architect/engineering (A/E) services contract, pursuant to solicitation/synopsis No. HSFE60-14-R-0003, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), for architectural and engineering services.' RAMP challenges the agency's evaluation as unreasonable. We sustain the protest in part, and deny it in part. 1 RAMP is a joint venture between Dewberry Consultants, LLC, URS Group, Inc., and ESP Associates, PA.

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