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B-418047.3,B-418047.4 1 (2020-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebei0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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: Battelle Memorial Institute File: B-418047.3; B-418047.4 Date: May 18, 2020 Marques 0. Peterson, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Robert C. Starling, Esq., and J. Matthew Carter, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Michael F. Mason, Esq., Christine A. Reynolds, Esq., Adilene Rosales, Esq., Stacy M. Hadeka, Esq., and Sarah E. Godwin, Esq., Hogan Lovells, for CSRA, LLC, the intervenor. Elise Harris, Esq., Corey Thompson, Esq., and Scott C. Briles, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging disparate treatment is sustained because the protester received a weakness for failing to address a task identified by the solicitation, yet the record reflects that the awardee's proposal did not receive a similar weakness even though it also failed to address the same task. DECISION Battelle Memorial Institute, of Columbus, Ohio, protests the issuance of a task order to CSRA, LLC, of Falls Church, Virginia, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. 75D301-19-R-67964, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for consultation, research, and development activities in support of the agency's work to prevent and respond to national and international influenza epidemics and pandemics. The protester challenges multiple aspects of the agency's evaluation of its own and the awardee's technical proposals, contends that the agency disparately evaluated proposals, and challenges the agency's methodology for scoring technical evaluations. The protester further argues that the agency's best-value tradeoff decision was flawed in multiple ways. We sustain the protest.

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