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B-414788,B-414788.2 1 (2017-09-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtux0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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 a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision approved for public release. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: Peregrine Integrated Management, Inc. File: B-414788; B-414788.2 Date: September 11, 2017 Joseph A. Whitcomb, Esq., Whitcomb, Selinsky, McAuliffe, PC, for the protester. David G. Fagan, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the technical acceptability of the awardee's quotation is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency reasonably evaluated the quotation as complying with the solicitation's material requirements. DECISION Peregrine Integrated Management, Inc., a small business, of Sherwood, Arkansas, protests the issuance of a purchase order to ZB Training Solutions LLC, a small business, of Suffolk, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA256-17-Q- 0452, which was issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for employee engagement and psychological training services. Peregrine primarily challenges the technical acceptability of ZB Training's quotation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On April 17, 2017, the VA issued the RFQ as a set-aside for service-disabled veteran- owned small businesses for all necessary labor and materials to perform three 7-hour employee engagement and psychological safety training sessions. RFQ at 1, 5. The RFQ further required that vendors conduct various pre- and post-training coaching sessions, meetings, and updates with small group facilitators, VA personnel, and participants. Id. at 5. The order was to be issued to the responsible vendor with the quotation that conformed to the RFQ and was most advantageous to the Government, solely price considered. Id. at 31.

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