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B-411962.5 1 (2017-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtaq0001 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 version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: The Concourse Group, LLC File: B-411962.5 Date: January 6, 2017 Anuj Vohra, Esq., Robert Nichols, Esq., and Nooree Lee, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for the protester. MAJ Stephen P. Smith, Department of the Army, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency imposed unstated evaluation criteria and unreasonably evaluated protester's quotation as unacceptable is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that the agency engaged in disparate treatment by applying lower scrutiny to the evaluation of awardee's quotation is denied where differences between the contents and organization of the two quotations supports the evaluation results. 3. Protest that the agency's discussions were misleading is denied where the discussions were sufficient to lead the protester into the areas of its quotation which required revision. DECISION The Concourse Group, LLC, of Annapolis, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to RER Solutions, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, by the Department of the Army, Mission and Installation Contracting Command, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W9124J-15-R-0064, to support the Army's financial, real estate analytical, advisory and consulting support services program. The protester argues that the agency improperly evaluated its technical proposal as unacceptable based on unstated evaluation criteria, engaged in disparate treatment between the vendors, and conducted misleading discussions. We deny the protest.

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