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B-419460,B-419460.2 Mar 04, 2021 1 (2021-03-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaolia0001 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: Creoal Consulting, LLC File: B-419460; B-419460.2 Date: March 4, 2021 Thomas A. Coulter, Esq., Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP, for the protester. Llewelyn M. Engel, Esq., McDermott Will & Emery LLP, for Savantage Solutions; Jeffery M. Chiow, Esq., Neil H. O'Donnell, Esq., Emily A. Wieser, Esq., and Eleanor M. Ross, Esq., Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, for CGI Federal Inc., the intervenors. Charlene T. Storino, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Michael P. Grogan, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's quotation is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest alleging that the agency engaged in disparate treatment in the evaluation of quotations is denied where the different evaluation results were reasonably based on substantive differences between the quotations. DECISION Creoal Consulting, LLC, a small business of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the failure of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the firm under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 70RDAD19Q00000101, for enterprise financial systems integrator support services. The protester contends, among other things, that the agency's evaluation of quotations was unreasonable, uneven, and inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation, and that DHS's best-value tradeoff was flawed. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on October 30, 2019, pursuant to the procedures in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, to vendors holding General Services Administration federal supply schedule (FSS) contracts under Information Technology

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