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B-417475.3,B-417475.4 1 (2019-09-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzwx0001 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: Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC File: B-417475.3; B-417475.4 Date: September 23, 2019 W. Brad English, Esq., J. Dale Gipson, Esq., Emily J. Chancey, Esq., and Michael W. Rich, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, for the protester. Daniel J. Strouse, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., and David S. Cohen, Esq., Cordatis Law LLP, for AttainX, Inc., the intervenor. Caleb Pearson, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Consultant's application for admission to protective order is denied where the applicant represents that he is involved in competitive decisionmaking and, further, that he was involved in a GAO protest covered by a protective order under which he had not been admitted; subsequent consultant is admitted where the parties agreed on restrictions to mitigate risk of inadvertent disclosure of protected information. 2. Protest challenging the agency's cost/price evaluation is sustained where the agency's evaluation of optional contract line item numbers, based solely on a selective sample of hourly labor rates, was unreasonable. 3. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of awardee's and protester's past performance is sustained where the evaluation is inadequately documented and inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation. 4. Protest challenging the agency's assessment of weaknesses to protester's quotation is sustained where the assessment of weaknesses was unreasonable, inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation, and inadequately documented. 5. Protest challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff decision is sustained when the decision was based on multiple evaluation errors, and when the selection official selected the awardee's higher-priced, technically superior quotation without

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