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B-414428 1 (2017-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtmx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Tesla Laboratories, Inc. File: B-414428 Date: June 7, 2017 James K. Kearney, Esq., and Joshua L. Rodman, Esq., Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, for the protester. James E. Hicks, Esq., and Susan M. Colarco, Esq., Drug Enforcement Administration, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of the rejection of the protester's quotation is denied, where the agency reasonably found, consistent with the stated evaluation criteria, that the protester's proposed personnel failed to satisfy the solicitation's minimum requirements. DECISION Tesla Laboratories, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, protests the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) exclusion of its quotation from the competition under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DJD-16-Q-01 02, for financial investigator support services. Tesla challenges the agency's technical evaluation of the firm's quotation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND DEA issued the RFQ as a small business set-aside on October 18, 2016, using the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4. The RFQ anticipated the issuance of a fixed-price blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with a base period of 1 year, and four 1-year options. Agency Report (AR), Tab 4, RFQ, at 19. The competition was limited to vendors holding FSS Professional Services Schedule (PSS) contract OOCORP with special item numbers

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