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B-419183.2 1 (2021-02-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecmu0001 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 G been approved for public release. Matter of: Comprehensive Health Services, LLC File: B-419183.2 Date: February 16, 2021 Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., Zachary D. Prince, Esq., and Nora K. Brent, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Matthew D. McKenzie, Esq., and Brian C. Habib, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Challenge to the assignment of a weakness to the protester's proposal, and exclusion from the competitive range, is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Comprehensive Health Services, LLC (Comprehensive), of Reston, Virginia, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range of the competition conducted under request for proposals (RFP) No. 70RDAD20R00000012, which was issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for COVID-19 test kits and related services. Comprehensive argues that the agency's evaluation relied on an unstated evaluation criterion. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND DHS issued the solicitation on June 22, 2020, seeking proposals to provide COVID-19 testing kits and related services. Agency Report (AR), Tab 14, RFP amend. 7 at 1, 4- 5.1 The agency requires in-vitro diagnostics for the detection and/or diagnosis of the 1 Citations to the RFP are to the conformed copy in RFP amendment 7, unless otherwise noted. Citations to documents in the agency report are to Adobe PDF document pages.

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