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B-417988.2,B-417988.3,B-417988.4 1 (2020-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaxo0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Deloitte Consulting LLP File: B-417988.2; B-417988.3; B-417988.4 Date: March 23, 2020 David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., and Daniel J. Strouse, Esq., Cordatis LLP, for the protester. Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., Brittin Law Group, PLLC, and Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Smith Pachter Mcwhorter PLC, for Grant Thornton LLP, the intervenor. Ashlee Adams, Esq., Mary Schaffer, Esq., Department of the Treasury, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where the awardee's quotation took exception to the solicitation's material requirements. 2. Protest is sustained where the award decision failed to meaningfully consider the strengths and weaknesses of each quotation and instead relied on the point scores assigned, and therefore did not reasonably explain why the agency selected a lower- priced, lower technically rated quotation for award. DECISION Deloitte Consulting LLP, of Arlington, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Grant Thornton LLP, of Alexandria, Virginia, by the Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, under blanket purchase agreement (BPA) call request (solicitation) No. ARC-511003-19-0001, which was issued for support of federal budget formulation requirements for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Deloitte argues that the award to Grant Thornton was improper because the awardee's quotation took exception to material solicitation requirements, the Bureau unreasonably and unequally evaluated the vendors' quotations under the technical evaluation factors, and the award decision failed to address the evaluated differences between the quotations and explain why the protester's higher-rated quotation was not worth a price premium.

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