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B-418472 1 (2020-04-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaxn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Airline Data Inc, LLC File: B-418472 Date: April 7, 2020 Jeff Pelletier, Airline Data Inc, LLC, for the protester. Gary Allen, Esq., and Lincoln Schroth, Esq., Government Accountability Office, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated protester's quotation as unacceptable and improperly selected higher-priced quotation for award is dismissed where the protester was not competitively prejudiced by the award even assuming that the agency waived one requirement unequally in favor of the awardee; the protester conceded that its product did not meet another requirement. DECISION Airline Data Inc, LLC, of Dallas, Texas, a small business, protests the issuance of a subscription agreement and purchase order to ReIx, Inc., doing business as Reed Business Information, of New York, New York, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 05GAOA20Q0002, issued by the Government Accountability Office, Acquisition Management, (GAO-AM)1, for a commercial subscription agreement to airline flight data, flight data analysis, and related online tools. Airline argues that GAO-AM misevaluated its quotation as unacceptable and Reed's quotation as acceptable, and improperly issued the order to Reed at a higher price. 1 The GAO Procurement Law Division reviewed this protest after implementing a firewall between our protest attorneys on one side and the procurement arm of the agency and its counsel, which was structured to ensure maximum independence and to prevent ex parte communication. Our bid protest decisions traditionally refer to the bid protest function as simply GAO or our Office, so in this decision we refer to the contracting function whose actions are challenged as GAO-AM to provide a clear distinction.

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