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B-417960.7 1 (2020-10-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebxo0001 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: BluePath Labs, LLC File: B-417960.7 Date: October 26, 2020 Wayne A. Keup, Esq., Wayne A. Keup, PLLC, for the protester. Kathleen Ellis, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Challenge to the agency's award decision and evaluation of past performance of the awardee is denied where the evaluation was consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION BluePath Labs, LLC (BluePath), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Washington, D.C., protests the award of a contract to Rios Partners, of Arlington, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C24E19Q0127, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for research analysis services. BluePath contends that the agency's award decision and evaluation of the awardee's past performance were flawed. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND This is BluePath's seventh protest challenging this procurement before our Office. We provide a short history of the procurement below.1 On July 30, 2019, the VA issued the RFQ, as a set-aside for SDVOSBs, to procure research services in order to produce scientific portfolio analyses of chronic diseases 1 A full recitation of the background of this procurement can be found in our prior decision, BluePath Labs, LLC--Recon., B-417960.6, July 10, 2020, 2010 CPD ¶ 232 at 1-5.

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