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B-410591,B-410591.2 1 (2015-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqxi0001 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 version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC File: B-410591; B-410591.2 Date: January 14, 2015 Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Julia Di Vito, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Donald Walsh, Esq., and Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman, PA, and Paul F. Khoury, Esq., and Laura E. Sherman, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Soliel, LLC, the intervenor. James E. Durkee, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency's evaluation of quotations is denied where agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest that awardee possessed an unequal access to information or biased ground rules organizational conflict of interest is denied where the protester failed to present hard facts indicating the existence of a conflict. DECISION Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, of Blacksburg, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Soliel, LLC, of Vienna, Virginia, by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HC1028-14-F-0515, for information technology (IT) systems support for the Defense Information Systems Agency. Harmonia alleges that the agency applied unstated minimum staffing requirements in evaluating its quotation, that the awardee's quotation failed to comply with required RFQ instructions, and that the awardee possessed an unmitigated organizational conflict of interest (OCI). We deny the protest.

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