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B-416551,B-416551.2 1 (2018-10-15)

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GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            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:  International Development Group Advisory Services, LLC

File:       B-416551 ; B-416551.2

Date:       October 15, 2018

C. Peter Dungan, Esq., and Christopher S. Denny, Esq., Miles & Stockbridge P.C., for
the protester.
Eric J. Marcotte, Esq., Jeffrey Lowry, Esq., Kelly Buroker, Esq., and Tamara Droubi,
Esq., Vedder Price, P.C., for Chemonics International, Inc., the intervenor.
R. Ren6 Dupuy, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the
agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals is denied where the record
demonstrates that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and not disparate.

2. Protest that the agency engaged in misleading discussions with the protester is
denied where the record shows that the agency did not mislead the protester.
DECISION

International Development Group Advisory Services, LLC (IDG), of Arlington, Virginia,
protests the award of a contract to Chemonics International, Inc., of Washington D.C.,
under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-121-17-000007, issued by the U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID) for services to support the USAID Competitive
Economy Program (CEP) in the Ukraine. IDG challenges the agency's evaluation of
proposals and conduct of discussions.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On March 13, 2017, USAID issued the RFP under the procedures of Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) part 15; the RFP contemplated the award of a single cost-plus-fixed-
fee contract for a five-year period of performance. Agency Report (AR) Tab 5, RFP
at 1.

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