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B-411066.2 1 (2015-05-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrcu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Regency Inn & Suites File: B-411066.2 Date: May 8, 2015 Kishan Shah, Regency Inn & Suites, for the protester. T. DeShawn Davis, Esq., United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Young S. Lee, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency unreasonably concluded that the awardee's quotation met various mandatory solicitation requirements is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable. 2. Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's quotation as unsatisfactory is denied where the quotation failed to comply with mandatory solicitation requirements. DECISION Regency Inn & Suites, of D'Iberville, Mississippi, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Bluewater Management Group, of Norfolk, Virginia, also a small business, under request for quotations (RFQ) HSCG23-15-Q-P5LOO1, issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for lodging and accommodations in Mississippi. Regency argues that the agency's evaluation was unreasonable. We deny the protest. The Coast Guard issued the RFQ as a small business set-aside on November 25, 2014. RFQ at 1. The solicitation incorporated the commercial item acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12.6, and the simplified acquisition procedures of FAR part 13. Id. The RFQ sought fixed-priced quotations for lodging and accommodations located within a 35-mile radius of the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, for up to 112 Coast Guard personnel. Id. at 1-2. The solicitation contemplated the award of a contract on a

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