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B-416602,B-416602.2 1 (2018-10-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvfv0001 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 The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approvedforpublic release. Matter of: Knight Point Systems, LLC File: B-416602; B-416602.2 Date: October 26, 2018 Thomas 0. Mason, Esq., Francis E. Purcell, Jr., Esq., Raymond C. McCann, Esq., and Joseph R. Berger, Esq., Thompson Hine LLP, for the protester. Gunjan R. Talati, Esq., Lawrence M. Prosen, Esq., Nicholas J. Nieto, Esq., and Stephanie N. Bedard, Esq., Kilpatrick Townsend LLP, for InquislT, LLC, the intervenor. Calvin F. Boles, Esq., Export-Import Bank of the United States, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that awardee engaged in an impermissible bait and switch regarding its key personnel is denied where awardee did not mislead the agency about its intent to utilize the key personnel it identified in its quotation and where awardee expressly advised the agency that it also intended to recruit incumbent employees. 2. Protest challenging assignment of multiple disadvantages to quotation is denied where significant disadvantage regarding key personnel was reasonably assigned and protester cannot demonstrate the remaining disadvantages prejudiced the protester. DECISION Knight Point Systems, LLC, (KPS) a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM)l to InquislT, LLC, a small business of Chantilly, Virginia, under that vendor's General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. 83310118Q0042, for information 1 EXIM is an independent executive agency and a wholly owned government corporation that supports U.S. exports by providing export financing through its loan, guarantee, and insurance programs. Agency Report (AR), Tab 4A, RFQ, Performance Work Statement (PWS) 2.

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