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B-419096,B-419096.2 1 (2020-11-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecby0001 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: RiVidium Inc. File: B-419096; B-419096.2 Date: November 30, 2020 James Y. Boland, Esq., Spencer P. Williams, Esq., and Chelsea B. Knudson, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., and Christine C. Fries, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for For Your Information, Inc., the intervenor. Michael Noyes, Esq., and Paulina Valanty, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated awardee's quotation is denied where evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. DECISION RiVidium Inc., of Manassas, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to For Your Information, Inc. (FYI), of Beltsville, Maryland, under request for quotations, (RFQ) No. 1437143, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Secret Service, for human resources support services. RiVidium asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated FYI's quotation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued as a small business set-aside pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4. RFQ at 1, 4. The solicitation provided for the award of a fixed-price task order with a 1-year base period and four 1-year options. Id. at 7. The solicitation advised that award would be made on a best-value tradeoff basis considering the following factors, listed in descending order of importance: technical, professional qualifications, and price. Id. at 4.

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