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B-417282.2,B-417282.3,B-417282.4 1 (2019-12-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaealk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAtOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Wellspring Worldwide, Inc. File: B-417282.2; B-417282.3; B-417282.4 Date: December 20, 2019 David T. Ralston, Jr., Esq., Frank S. Murray, Esq., Julia Di Vito, Esq., and Micah T. Zomer, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, for the protester. Anthony E. Marrone, Esq., and Pamela Waldron, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of quotations is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest that the agency engaged in misleading discussions with the protester by failing to advise during discussions that the protester's quoted price was unreasonably high is denied where the agency did not find the protester's price unreasonable, and was not otherwise obligated to raise this matter during discussions. 3. Protest that the awardee's quotation improperly took exception to the solicitation requirement to quote a fixed price is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the awardee's assumptions were not exceptions, and where the language in question reflects the reservation of a right to request, rather than receive, a price adjustment. 4. Agency's selection of a lower-rated, lower-priced quotation for award is unobjectionable where the agency's tradeoff decision was reasonable and adequately documented. DECISION Wellspring Worldwide, Inc., a small business of Chicago, Illinois, protests the issuance of a purchase order by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), to Inteum Company, LLC, of Kirkland, Washington, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. NIAID-RFQ18-20180622, for an enterprise system

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