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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
been approved for public release.
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Matter of: Visual Connections, LLC
File: B-410777; B-410777.2
Date: February 13, 2015
Cyrus E. Phillips IV, Esq., Albo & Oblon LLP, for the protester.
Christopher J. Kimball, Esq., Thomas 0. Mason, Esq., and Francis E. Purcell, Jr.,
Esq., Cooley LLP, for Knight Point Systems, LLC, an intervenor.
Jonathan A. Baker, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the
agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging an agency's evaluation is denied where the evaluation
included both point-scoring of quotations and narrative discussion of quotations'
strengths and weaknesses and was consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
2. Protest that awardee fraudulently misrepresent[ed] the commitments of two
incumbents is denied where the awardee's quotation included commitment letters
signed by the two individuals at issue.
DECISION
Visual Connections, LLC, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, protests the issuance of a
task order by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to Knight Point Systems, of Reston,
Virginia, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. AHRQ-1 5-10003 to provide
various information technology (IT) services. Visual asserts that the agency failed
to perform an evaluation consistent with the terms of the solicitation and that the
awardee misrepresented the commitment of two proposed personnel.
We deny the protest.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadrat0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)