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B-418313 1 (2020-03-02)

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GAO 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
                                          1been approved for public release.


Matter of:   C&T Technologies

File:        B-418313

Date:        March 2, 2020

Megan M. Jeschke, Esq., and Kelsey M. Hayes, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the
protester.
Alfred M. Wurglitz, Esq., C. Peter Dungan, Esq., and Christopher S. Denny, Esq., Miles
& Stockbridge PC, for Ideation Solutions JV, LLC, the intervenor.
Elin M. Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency.
Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest that the agency failed to properly evaluate the awardee's price proposal in
accordance with the terms of the solicitation is denied where the record shows that the
evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the stated evaluation criteria.
DECISION

C&T Technologies, a small business of Washington, District of Columbia, protests the
issuance of a task order to Ideation Solutions JV, LLC, a small business of Fairfax,
Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 12314420R0002, issued by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) for information technology (IT) end user support
services. C&T argues that the agency's evaluation of Ideation's price proposal was
flawed.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFP, issued on September 27, 2019, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR) subpart 16.5, sought proposals from participants in the Small Business
Administration's 8(a) Business Development Program who are holders of the National
Institute of Health's Chief Information Officer (CIO) Solution and Partners Version 3
Small Business governmentwide acquisition contract. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFP

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