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B-418380.4 Mar 10, 2021 1 (2021-03-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaoljv0001 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: Cotton & Company, LLP File: B-418380.4 Date: March 10, 2021 Thomas O. Crist, Esq., Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, LLP, for the protester. Craig A. Holman, Esq., and Thomas Petit, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for Ernst & Young LLP, the intervenor. James A. Vatne, Esq., Amber M. Hufft, Esq., Ian Rothfuss, Esq., and Jessica M. Sitron, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated vendors' past performance is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Cotton & Company, LLP (Cotton), of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Ernst & Young LLC, of New York, New York, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 80HQTR19Q0006, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), for the NASA Annual Financial Statement Audit (NAFSA). Cotton challenges the agency's evaluation of quotations and the source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 18, 2019, NASA issued the RFQ under the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4. The RFQ was issued to vendors holding a contract under the General Services Administration's, Federal Supply Schedule Number 00CORP, PSS, entitled Professional Services Schedule; Financial and Business Solutions, SIN (special item number) 520-7, Financial & Performance Audits. Agency

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