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B-416097.3,B-416097.4 1 (2018-09-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvdt0001 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 The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Octo Consulting Group, Inc. File: B-416097.3; B-416097.4 Date: September 24, 2018 Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., and Marcus Augustine, Esq., Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings, LLP, for the protester. Deneen J. Melander, Esq., Lanora C. Pettit, Esq., Lukman Azeez, Esq., and Richard Sauber, Esq., Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP, for Northrop Grumman, the intervenor. Richard L. Hatfield, Esq., Kelly Zeng, Esq., and Holly H. Styles, Esq., Department of the Treasury, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency performed an impermissible price realism evaluation is denied where the agency simply concluded that the protester's technical approach was marginal, and therefore could pose cost, schedule, and technical risks to the agency. 2. Protest that agency treated vendors disparately by scrutinizing the protester's staffing plan, while failing to conduct similarly rigorous analysis for the awardee, is denied where the awardee provided the information required by the solicitation, but the protester provided more detailed information than was required, and the agency reasonably reviewed the more detailed information. 3. Protest that agency did not give due consideration to protester's socioeconomic status in a best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the protester could not demonstrate prejudice. DECISION Octo Consulting Group, a small business of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a blanket purchase agreement to Northrop Grumman, of West Falls Church, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. TIRNO-1 8-Q-00002 issued by the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), against the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) 70 for information technology services

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