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B-410492.3 1 (2015-10-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrxb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: jgA Comptroller General c ity * Integrity * Rellability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office F DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below wassubjectto a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; w e are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: Aventura Technologies, Inc. File: B-410492.3 Date: October 8, 2015 Bryan Ha, Esq., Law Offices of Bryan Ha, for the protester. Jason R. Collins, Esq., and Dean Daisy, Esq., Frias Daisy Collins Attorneys at Law, for Orion Management, LLC, the intervenor. Jonathan D. Tepper, Esq., Lori R. Larson, Esq., and Holly L. Styles, Esq., Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, 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 the successful vendor's quotation as acceptable under a corporate experience evaluation factor is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that agency treated vendors unequally by determining that the successful vendor's Federal Supply Schedule contract permitted the agency's services-only order, but that the protester's Schedule contract did not, is denied where the record shows that the agency determination was reasonably based on differences in the terms of the Schedule contracts. DECISION Aventura Technologies, Inc., of Hauppauge, New York, a small business, protests the issuance of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) order to Orion Management, LLC, of Springfield, Virginia, by the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. BEP-RFQ-14-0478 (also identified as e-Buy RFQ No. RFQ889613) for security system maintenance services for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). Aventura argues that the IRS misevaluated Orion's quotation. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

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