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B-418063.3,B-418063.4 1 (2020-10-02)

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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
D   ecisio    n                          ;a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                           been approved for public release.


Matter of:   Technology, Automation & Management,  Inc.

File:     B-418063.3; B-418063.4

Date:     October 2,   2020

Kenneth  D. Brody, Esq., and Thomas K. David, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP,
for the protester.
Thomas  M. Dunlap, Esq., Dunlap Bennett Ludwig PLLC, for KSJ & Associates, Inc., the
intervenor.
Angie Calloway, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated quotations under a technical factor is
denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with
the solicitation.

2. Protest challenging agency's price realism evaluation is denied where record shows
that the agency's evaluation was adequate, reasonable, and consistent with the
solicitation.

3. Protest alleging that awardee has an unequal access to information organizational
conflict of interest is denied where the record shows that the agency meaningfully
considered the alleged conflict and reasonably concluded that the awardee did not have
an organizational conflict of interest.
DECISION

Technology, Automation & Management,   Inc. (TeAM), of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the
issuance of a task order to KSJ & Associates, Inc. (KSJ), of Falls Church, Virginia,
under request for quotations (RFQ) No. ID07180067, issued by the General Services
Administration, Federal Acquisition Services, for program and technical management
services to support the Defense Health Agency (DHA). TeAM raises multiple
challenges to the agency's evaluation of quotations and source selection decision,
including that the agency's technical and price realism evaluations were flawed, KSJ

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