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B-419190,B-419190.2 1 (2020-12-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeceu0001 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: Gartner, Inc. File: B-419190; B-419190.2 Date: December 14, 2020 Keith R. Szeliga, Esq., and Shaunna Bailey, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for the protester. Lindsay Simmons, Esq., and Hopewell Darneille, Esq., Jackson Kelly PLLC, for Forrester Research, Inc., the intervenor. Major Nichole M. Venious, Department of the Army, for the agency. Todd C. Culliton, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated awardee's quotation is denied where the agency evaluated the firm's quotation consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest that the services offered in awardee's quotation were not on the firm's federal supply schedule contract is denied where the agency reasonably interpreted the firm's schedule contract as including the quoted services. DECISION Gartner, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, protests the issuance of a task order to Forrester Research, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1434815, issued by the Department of the Army for information technology (IT) research and advisory subscription services. Gartner alleges that the agency unreasonably evaluated Forrester's quotation as technically acceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 29, 2020, the agency issued the RFQ to procure IT research and advisory subscription services through the General Service Administration's e-Buy platform.

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