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B-409537,B-409537.2 1 (2014-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqob0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General rAccountablity * 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 [...been approvedfor release. Matter of: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP File: B-409537; B-409537.2 Date: June 4, 2014 Philip J. Davis, Esq., Nooree Lee, Esq., and Gary S. Ward, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., Brittin Law Group, P.L.L.C., for CliftonLarsonAlen, LLP, the intervenor. Richard J. McCarthy, Esq., Maria R. Harrington, Esq., and John H. Eckhardt, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that source selection authority's best value tradeoff decision improperly abandoned the solicitation's stated evaluation scheme is sustained where the record as a whole, and the testimony provided at a hearing, shows that the source selection authority selected the lower-priced quotation after concluding that the evaluated technical merit of the protester's quotation, and the technical weaknesses of the awardee's quotation, were offset by the awardee's past performance--even though both quotations were rated the same for past performance and past performance provided no basis for distinguishing between the quotations. DECISION PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA), of Calverton, Maryland, under CLA's General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. NNH1 3461926Q for financial statement audit services in support of NASA's Office of Inspector General. PwC challenges the agency's selection decision. We sustain the protest.

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