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B-418885,B-418885.2 1 (2020-10-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebzp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA.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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: LexisNexis, a Division of RELX Inc. File: B-418885; B-418885.2 Date: October 8, 2020 Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., Scott F. Lane, Esq., and Jayna Marie Rust, Esq., Thompson Coburn LLP, for the protester. James J. McCullough, Esq., Michael J. Anstett, Esq., and Christopher Bell, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.; Jason A. Carey, Esq., Kayleigh M. Scalzo, Esq., and Andrew R. Guy, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for West Publishing Corporation, d/b/a West, a Thomson Reuters Business, the intervenors. Justin Wakefield, Esq., Holly H. Styles, Esq., Richard L. Hatfield, Esq., and Jonathan D. Tepper, Esq., Department of the Treasury, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated protester's proposal and engaged in unequal evaluation treatment is denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable and that differences in the evaluation were based on differences in offerors' proposals. 2. Protest that agency conducted misleading discussions is denied where the agency identified inaccurate results in testing the protester's product and, although the protester asserted in its final proposal revision that it had identified and corrected the problem, the agency's subsequent testing justified similar concerns with inaccurate results. 3. Protest that agency erroneously assessed both a significant strength and a strength for the same attribute to the awardee's proposal, and made other errors, is denied where the protester was not competitively prejudiced by the errors. DECISION LexisNexis, a division of RELX, Inc. (Lexis), of Washington, D.C., protests the award of contracts to Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA), of Boston, Massachusetts, and to West Publishing Corporation, doing business as West, a Thomson Reuters Business (Thomson), of Eagan, Minnesota, under request for proposals (RFP)

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