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B-411776,B-411776.2 1 (2015-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadszg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 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: Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc. File: B-411776; B-411776.2 Date: October 20, 2015 Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., Mark J. Nackman, Esq., and James A. Tucker, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the protester. James E. Hicks, Esq., Drug Enforcement Administration, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where the record does not demonstrate that the source selection official considered the underlying differences between the awardee's and the protester's technical proposals, and unreasonably concluded that all offerors' proposals were technically equivalent based on their adjectival evaluation ratings. DECISION Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., of Beltsville, Maryland, protests the award of a task order to Ikun, LLC, of Herndon, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DJD-15-R-0006, issued by the Drug Enforce Administration (DEA), for administrative and data research analysis services. Arctic Slope challenges the DEA's evaluation of proposals and best-value determination. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The DEA issued the RFP on March 10, 2015, to vendors holding multiple-award ID/IQ contracts under the General Service Administration's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) contracts.' The competition was set-aside for 1 OASIS is a multiple award ID/IQ contract which provides flexible and innovative solutions for professional services. See www.qsa..qov/portal/cateqory/104731.

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