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B-412398 1 (2016-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrwc0001 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: Castro & Company, LLC File: B-412398 Date: January 29, 2016 Thomas Castro and Gabriel Fry, Castro & Company, LLC, for the protester. Steven F. Pereira, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated protester's quotation with respect to technical and past performance factors is sustained where the evaluation results are not supported by the record. 2. Protest that source selection decision lacked a reasonable basis is sustained where contemporaneous record shows that contracting officer selected awardee's quotation on the basis of its higher numerical score, without documenting any consideration of the basis for the score, the merits of competing quotations, or whether any advantages of the awardee's quotation outweighed its higher price. DECISION Castro & Company, LLC (C&C), of Alexandria, Virginia, a small business, protests the issuance of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) order to AOC Solutions, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, by the Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DTFT6015Q00013 for services to assist the FTA Office of Budget and Policy. C&C argues that the FTA misevaluated the firm's quotation and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On June 19, 2015, the FTA posted the RFQ on the General Services Administration (GSA) e-Buy system, seeking quotations from firms holding FSS contracts under

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