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B-410078 1 (2014-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqrv0001 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 dfor release. Matter of: Swets Information Services File: B-410078 Date: October 20, 2014 David T. Ralston, Jr., Esq., Frank S. Murray, Esq., and Jennifer M. Forde, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, for the protester. Elyse M. Griffiths, Esq., and Dennis Foley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation is sustained where we cannot determine the reasonableness of the evaluation of the vendors' product demonstrations because the evaluation was not adequately documented. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of one of the vendor's alternatively- quoted products is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the vendor did not provide information that was accurate and complete, as required by the solicitation. 3. Protest challenging the agency's past performance evaluation is denied where the record shows that there was no prejudice to the protester as a result of the alleged error. DECISION Swets Information Services, of Runnemede, New Jersey, protests the issuance of a task order to Cox Subscriptions, Inc., of Shallotte, North Carolina, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA257-14-Q-0933, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for subscription services to a brand name or equal, online, searchable, pharmaceutical information database. Swets argues that the agency's evaluation of its quotations offering two alternative databases, and the resulting award decision, were improper. We sustain the protest in part and deny it in part.

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