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B-413887,B-413887.2 1 (2016-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadszc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * 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 Decisionbeen approved for public release. D e c i s i o n --- - - a- - r-- °--- v-- e-- d------ °-- r-- --- b--- c--- r-- e- - e--- a-- s--- e---------------- ------------------ ----------------- Matter of: Information Experts, Inc. File: B-413887; B-413887.2 Date: December 30, 2016 Barbara S. Kinosky, Esq., David R. Warner, Esq., and Heather B. Mims, Esq., Centre Law and Consulting, LLC, for the protester. Angela T. Puri, Esq., and Mark Beaudette, Esq., Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 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. GAO has bid protest jurisdiction of procurement by Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) because CFPB is a federal agency, even though it is funded by nonappropriated funds and that funding was used in the procurement being protested. 2. Protest that agency misevaluated quotations for Federal Supply Schedule order and made an unreasonable source selection decision is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and treated offerors equally, and that the source selection decision was adequately documented and provided a rationale for selection of the higher-rated and higher-priced quotation. DECISION Information Experts, Inc. (IE), of Ashburn, Virginia, a small business, protests the issuance of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) order to ICF International L.L.C., of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. CFP-1 6-Q-00041, issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for services to support its tax time saving initiative. IE argues that both vendors' quotations were misevaluated, and that the CFPB made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest.

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