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B-409051.7,B-409051.9 1 (2016-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrxs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: MILVETS Systems Technology, Inc. File: B-409051.7; B-409051.9 Date: January 29, 2016 Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., and Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for the protester. William A. Shook, Esq., The Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for Metrica Team Venture, the intervenor. Melissa D. McClellan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's reevaluation of quotations after multiple corrective actions is denied where a new technical evaluation panel and source selection authority, which had no knowledge of the prior evaluation results, evaluated the quotations and reasonably reached different conclusions than the earlier evaluators as to the merits of the quotations. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's and awardee's quotations is denied where the evaluation was reasonable, equal, and consistent with the solicitation. 3. Protest challenging agency's trade-off determination is denied where the source selection authority was aware of the relative importance of the evaluation criteria, recognized the relative advantages and disadvantages of the offerors' quotations, and identified in the selection decision the numerous technical advantages offered by the awardee that were worth the price premium. DECISION MILVETS Systems Technology, Inc., a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business located in Lanham, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Metrica Team Venture (MTV), of San Antonio, Texas, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. AG-3198-S-1 3-0058, issued by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for infrastructure operations and support for USDA's Food and Nutrition Service's

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