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B-419237,B-419237.2 1 (2021-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecja0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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 version has been Decision e~rucees approved for public release. Matter of: Equinoxys, Inc. File: B-419237; B-419237.2 Date: January 6, 2021 Thomas K. David, Esq., Kenneth D. Brody, Esq., and Katherine A. David, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP, for the protester. John W. Kim, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's technical evaluation is denied where, notwithstanding apparent errors, the protester fails to establish competitive prejudice. DECISION Equinoxys, Inc., a small business of Great Falls, Virginia, protests the award of an order to Creoal Consulting, a small business of Washington, D.C., under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 9199002000020, which was issued by the Department of Education (DOE), for Hyperion software system enhancements. Equinoxys challenges the agency's evaluation of quotations. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, which was issued on June 15, 2020, and subsequently amended five times, sought quotations from small business holders of Federal Supply Schedule 70 contracts to enhance the system capabilities of the agency's Hyperion financial management software. See Agency Report (AR), Tab A, Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1; Tab C, RFQ at 1.1 Specifically, the RFQ's performance work statement (PWS) divided the anticipated effort into five tasks. Under task 1, the contractor will be required to provide program and project management to establish the control, management, 1 References herein to page numbers of AR exhibits are to the electronic page numbering of the exhibits as produced in the agency's report.

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