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B-418670.2,B-418670.3,B-418670.4 1 (2021-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecjf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Candor Solutions, LLC File: B-418670.2; B-418670.3; B-418670.4 Date: January 19, 2021 Jon D. Levin, Esq., W. Brad English, Esq., and Emily J. Chancey, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale PC, for the protester. Richard W. Arnholt, Esq., and Sylvia Yi, Esq., Bass Berry & Sims, PLC, for Patriot, LLC, the intervenor. Melissa K. Erny, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, 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 used a facially unreasonable adjectival rating scheme and then deviated from this scheme in its evaluation is denied where protester has not shown that the evaluation scheme was unreasonable and the record shows that the agency reasonably considered the relative merits of protester's proposal in its source selection. 2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal under the non-price factors, and the awardee's proposal under the price factor, is denied where record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Candor Solutions, LLC (Candor), of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Patriot, LLC, of Columbia, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 70B04C19000000027, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), for technology service-desk operations. Candor alleges that the agency used a facially unreasonable adjectival rating scheme in its evaluation; unreasonably deviated from this scheme in evaluating Candor's proposal; unreasonably evaluated Candor's proposal under the non-price factors; and did not evaluate Patriot's proposal according to the RFP terms under the price factor. We deny the protest.

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