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B-413464,B-413464.2 1 (2016-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtea0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been aprovedforpublic release. Matter of: Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC File: B-413464; B-413464.2 Date: November 4, 2016 Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., and Kelly A. Krystyniak, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Thomas A. Coulter, Esq., and Nicole Hardin Brakstad, Esq., LeClairRyan, for Optimal Solutions and Technologies, Inc., the intervenor. Stephen F. Pereira, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's best-value award decision is sustained where the record does not show that the source selection authority performed a price/technical best-value tradeoff before concluding that the higher-rated, higher-priced quotation offered the best value to the government. DECISION Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, of Blacksburg, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Optimal Solutions and Technologies, Inc. (OST), of Washington, DC, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DTFT6016Q00004, issued by the Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), for information technology (IT) services.1 Harmonia challenges the FTA's evaluation of quotations and argues that the agency failed to conduct a proper best-value tradeoff. We sustain the protest. 1 Harmonia is a small, woman-owned, disadvantaged business.

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