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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548 of the United States
Decision
Matter of: AMG Company, Inc.
File: B-415067.2
Date: January 29, 2018
Frank V. Reilly, Esq., Frank V. Reilly Attorney at Law, for the protester.
Brian A. Quint, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency.
Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that the agency's evaluation of proposals after taking corrective action was
unreasonable is denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable and in
accordance with the stated evaluation criteria.
DECISION
AMG Company, Inc., of Santa Clemente, California, protests the award of a contract to
Southwest Business Development by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian
Affairs (B IA) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. A17PS00812 for meal services.
AMG challenges the agency's corrective action and the evaluation of proposals.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The RFQ, issued on June 19, 2017, as an Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise
set-aside, sought quotations from small business Indian economic enterprises for the
provision of meal services at the Sherman Indian High School, located in Riverside,
California, which is operated by the BIA's Bureau of Indian Education.' Agency Report
1 The RFQ included Department of the Interior Acquisition Regulation Supplement
(DIAR) provision 1452.280-1, Notice of Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise Set-
aside (JUL 2013), which provides, [u]nder the Buy Indian Act, 25 U.S.C. [section] 47,
offers are solicited only from Indian economic enterprises (Subpart 1480.8) that are also
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