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B-414650.11,B-414650.15 1 (2018-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadutt0001 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 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: VariQ Corporation File: B-414650.11 ; B-414650.15 Date: May 30, 2018 Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Moshe B. Broder, Esq., and Sarah B. Hansen, Esq., Wiley Rein 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 challenging agency's evaluation of an individual proposed by the awardee for a key personnel position is sustained where the contemporaneous record does not demonstrate that the individual met the qualification requirement. 2. Protest challenging agency's past performance evaluation is sustained where the agency relied on incorrect past performance questionnaire ratings in evaluating the protester's quotation. 3. Protest challenging the source selection official's finding that two of the awardee's strengths were of significant program benefit is sustained where the agency failed to explain why it did not find similar strengths proposed by the protester also to be of significant benefit to the agency. DECISION VariQ Corporation, a small business located in Rockville, Maryland, 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 ignored the awardee's failure to meet a key personnel qualification requirement, unreasonably evaluated VariQ's past performance, unreasonably and unequally evaluated Inserso's

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