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B-411994.5,B-411994.6 1 (2016-09-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtbm0001 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 .DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been for release been approved frpublic release. -------------------- Matter of: IT Shows, Inc. File: B-411994.5; B-411994.6 Date: September 26, 2016 William T. Welch, Esq., and Peter A. Fish, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, for the protester. David S. Black, Esq., and Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Social Solutions International, Inc., an intervenor. R. Ren6 Dupuy, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging post-corrective action changes to the protester's technical proposal ratings is denied where the protester offers no basis to question the underlying evaluation findings and where the record shows the agency's source selection decision did not rely only on the ratings, but also substantively considered the proposals' technical merits. 2. Protest challenging the agency's cost evaluation is denied where the record shows the evaluation of the protester's cost proposal was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and where an error in the evaluation of the awardee's cost proposal did not competitively prejudice the protester. DECISION IT Shows, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Social Solutions International, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-OAA-14-000024 for professional services in support of USAID health programs worldwide. IT Shows alleges that the agency's technical and cost evaluations were unreasonable. We deny the protest.

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