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B-414650.7,B-414650.12 1 (2018-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadutd0001 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 Decision IThe decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: 360 IT Integrated Solutions File: B-414650.7; B-414650.12 Date: May 18, 2018 Richard J. Conway, Esq., Michael J. Slattery, Esq., and loana Cristei, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester. Richard P. Rector, Esq., Dawn E. Stern, Esq., and Eric P. Roberson, Esq., DLA Piper LLP (US), for Inserso Corporation, the intervenor. Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., and Christopher M. Alwood, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly considered negative past performance information about the protester's subcontractor, which was not included in the protester's quotation, is sustained where the agency failed to document the basis for its consideration. 2. Protest that agency identified strengths in the awardee's quotation, but unreasonably failed to recognize similar strengths in the protester's quotation is sustained where the agency did not provide a meaningful explanation for its unequal treatment. 3. Protest that agency failed to assign a strength to the protester's quotation for its proposed staffing approach, under the management approach evaluation factor, is sustained where the agency did not provide a meaningful explanation for its evaluation. DECISION 360 IT Integrated Solutions (360 ITIS), a small business located in Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Inserso Corporation, a small business located in Vienna, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HSCETC-1 7-Q-00010, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for information technology operations support services (ITOSS). The protester argues that the agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated 360 ITIS's past performance, unreasonably and unequally evaluated quotations under the management and technical approach evaluation factors, and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff determination.

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