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B-409346.2,B-409346.6,B-409346.9 1 (2014-12-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadquw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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 been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: International Resources Group File: B-409346.2; B-409346.6; B-409346.9 Date: December 11, 2014 Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Zachary D. Prince, Esq., and Elspeth A. England, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Richard B. O'Keeffe, Jr., Esq., William A. Roberts, III, Esq., and Gary S. Ward, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for AECOM International Development, Inc.; Robert Nichols, Esq., Nooree Lee, Esq., Kayleigh Scalzo, Esq., and Catlin M. Meade, Esq., Covington & Burling LLP, for Development Alternatives, Inc.; Holly A. Roth, Esq., Lystra Batchoo, Esq., David E. Frulla, Esq., and Elizabeth C. Johnson, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, for Tetra Tech ARD; the intervenors. R. Rene Dupuy, Esq., and Scott Risner, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee gained an unfair competitive advantage by employing a former high-level agency official is sustained where the record demonstrates that the agency failed to meaningfully consider whether the official had access to non-public, competitively useful information. 2. Protest challenging the agency's source selection is denied where the agency's decision to make awards to proposals that were higher technically-rated and higher-priced than the protester's proposal was reasonable, adequately- documented, and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. 3. In a multiple-award procurement where the agency anticipated the award of approximately five contracts, with two awards reserved for small businesses, the agency's decision to make a sixth award to a small business offeror that submitted a lower-rated proposal than the proposal submitted by the large business protester is unobjectionable where a portion of the awards were reserved for small businesses, and where the solicitation also reserved the right to make more, or fewer, awards.

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