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B-414648.2,B-414648.3 1 (2017-11-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadual0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Protection Strategies, Inc. File: B-414648.2; B-414648.3 Date: November 20, 2017 Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., Matthew E. Feinberg, Esq., and Julia Di Vito, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Seeta Rebbapragada, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the evaluation of the awardee's quotation is sustained where the record does not demonstrate that the agency had a reasonable basis to assign a strength for the awardee's proposed personnel. 2. Protest that the agency unreasonably ignored the protester's pricing assumptions is denied where the assumptions were inconsistent with the solicitation's requirements and were expressly barred by the evaluation criteria. 3. Protest challenging the award to the vendor that submitted a lower-technically-rated, lower-priced quotation, as compared to the protester, is sustained where the source selection authority did not have a reasonable basis for concluding that the evaluated differences between the vendors' quotations under the non-price factors were negligible. DECISION Protection Strategies, Inc. (PSI), of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Skyhawk Logistics, Inc., of Laurel, Maryland, by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 16-233-SOL-00560 for background investigation services. PSI argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated the vendors under the technical, past performance, and price factors, and that the agency made an unreasonable tradeoff decision in selecting Skyhawk's lower-technically-rated, lower-priced quotation for award.

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