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B-418377.7,B-418377.8,B-418377.9 1 (2020-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebjn0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Business Integra Technology Solutions, Inc. File: B-418377.7; B-418377.8; B-418377.9 Date: July 7, 2020 Carla Weiss, Esq., Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Matthew L. Haws, Esq., and Eric K. Herendeen, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the protester. Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Lisa A Markman, Esq., Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., and Nathaniel J. Greeson, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for Soft Tech Consulting, Inc., the intervenor. Kathleen D. Martin, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's assessment of the highest past performance rating to awardee was unreasonable where the solicitation required that, to be considered relevant, prior contracts had to be similar in dollar value to that of the competed task order, and the agency relied on awardee's prior contracts that were valued at a small fraction of the competed task order's value. 2. Agency unreasonably assessed a weakness in protester's quotation based on the agency's view that activities the quotation characterized as innovative were already being performed under the protester's incumbent contract. 3. Agency's source selection decision unreasonably included consideration of a purported weakness in protester's quotation that agency now acknowledges is erroneous. 4. Agency's best-value tradeoff determination was unreasonable where agency failed to consider total prices, as required by the solicitation. DECISION Business Integra Technology Solutions, Inc. (BI), of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the Department of State's (DOS) issuance of a task order to Soft Tech Consulting, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. 19AQMM19Q0177, to

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