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B-413559.3,B-413559.4,B-413559.6,B-413559.7 1 (2017-01-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsyg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Sevatec, Inc.; InfoReliance Corporation; Enterprise Information Services, Inc.; Buchanan & Edwards, Inc. File: B-413559.3; B-413559.4; B-413559.6; B-413559.7 Date: January 11, 2017 William A. Shook, Esq., The Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for Sevatec, Inc., and InfoReliance Corporation; Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., Brittin Law Group, PLLC, for Enterprise Information Services, Inc.; John E. Jensen, Esq., and Selena M. Brady Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Buchanan & Edwards, Inc., protesters. Charles McCarthy, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that use of a highest technically rated offerors with a fair and reasonable price evaluation scheme is impermissible for failing to properly consider price is denied; the Federal Acquisition Regulation permits agencies to use any one or a combination of source selection approaches to obtain the best value. 2. Protest that agency is improperly assigning points to small businesses under the solicitation's evaluation scheme is denied where the protesters have not shown that the agency's allocation of points is unreasonable, or otherwise alleged that the agency is engaging in improper disparate treatment. 3. Protest that agency is making an insufficient number of awards to ensure adequate competition at the task order level is denied where record shows that the agency intends to award approximately 60 contracts, and has taken other steps to encourage competition at the task order level. DECISION Sevatec, Inc., of Fairfax, Virginia; InfoReliance Corporation, of Fairfax, Virginia; Enterprise Information Services, Inc. (EIS), of Vienna, Virginia; and Buchanan & Edwards, Inc. (B&E), of Arlington, Virginia, protest the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. QTA0016JCA0003, issued by the General Services

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