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B-418375.2 1 (2020-05-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebjd0001 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 ....................................................................................................................... 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: Diversified Services Group, Inc. File: B-418375.2 Date: May 28, 2020 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., and Andres Vera, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for the protester. Ruth E. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal and Ganister, LLC, for Integrity National Corporation, the intervenor. Joon Hong, Esq., and Jose Otero, Esq., Department of Labor, for the agency. Christine Milne, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency improperly evaluated the protester's quotation as technically unacceptable is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable in light of the protester's failure to submit an adequately written quotation. DECISION Diversified Services Group, Inc., a small business of Germantown, Maryland, protests the award of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) task order to Integrity National Corporation, a small business of Silver Spring, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1605DC-19-R-00055, issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) for janitorial and snow removal services at the Department of Labor's Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C. The protester argues that the agency improperly evaluated its quotation as technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On September 18, 2019, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 8, the DOL issued the RFQ for janitorial and snow removal services to be provided over a one-year base period and up to four option years. Agency Report (AR), exh. 1, RFQ at 1, 25, 86. Award was to be made to the firm whose quotation was most advantageous to the government considering three evaluation factors: technical/management approach, past performance, and price. Id. at 86. The

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