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B-414694 1 (2017-08-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtsb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Castro & Company, LLC File: B-414694 Date: August 15, 2017 Thomas Castro, for the protester. William B. Blake, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the issuance of a Federal Supply Schedule task order to a technically-superior, higher-priced vendor is denied where the record shows the best- value determination was reasonably based on qualitative differences between the competing quotations. DECISION Castro & Company, LLC, of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Acuity Consulting Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia, by the Department of Interior (DOI) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. D1 7PS00029. The procurement was conducted by DOI on behalf of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to obtain financial statement audit services for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). Castro challenges the agency's evaluation of quotations and the best-value award decision. We deny the protest.' 1 Our Office did not issue a protective order in connection with this protest because the protester did not retain counsel. Accordingly, our discussion of the facts of this protest is necessarily general in nature to avoid reference to nonpublic information. Our conclusions, however, are based on our review of the entire record, including nonpublic information provided by the agency to our Office.

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