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B-416937,B-416937.2 1 (2019-01-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvlj0001 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 approved for public release. Matter of: Safal Partners, Inc. File: B-416937; B-416937.2 Date: January 15, 2019 Adam K. Lasky, Esq., David Y. Yang, Esq., Erich Potter, Esq., and Daniel P. Radthorne, Esq., Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker, LLP, for the protester. Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., and Jacqueline K. Unger, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for Manhattan Strategy Group, LLC, the intervenor. Mark Motta, Esq., and Michael S. Taylor, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's technical quotation is denied where any errors in the evaluation were not prejudicial to the protester. 2. Protest that the agency conducted unfair discussions is denied where, in this Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4 procurement, the agency was required to request a price reduction, and other requested changes to the price quotations did not constitute discussions. 3. Protest that awardee's subcontractor has an unmitigated impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest is sustained where the agency's initial analysis relied on vendors' self-certifications, and the agency's post-protest analysis was based on a mistake of material fact and the application of an improper legal standard. DECISION Safal Partners, Inc., of Houston, Texas, protests the issuance of a task order (TO) to Manhattan Strategy Group, LLC (MSG), of Bethesda, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 91990018Q0023, issued by the Department of Education (DOE) for support of the Charter Schools Program (CSP). The protester asserts that the agency's evaluation of Safal's quotation was unreasonable, the conduct of discussions

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