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B-418483.2,B-418483.3 Sep 10, 2020 1 (2020-09-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaolmb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA.O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Mortgage Contracting Services, LLC File: B-418483.2; B-418483.3 Date: September 10, 2020 Gregory S. Jacobs, Esq., and Erin L. Felix, Esq., Polsinelli PC, for the protester. Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., and John M. Mattox II, Esq., Schoonover & Moriarty LLC, for Information Systems and Networks Corporation, the intervenor. Elin M. Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the awardee possessed a disqualifying organizational conflict of interest is denied where the agency investigated the protester's allegations and reasonably concluded that work performed by the awardee under a different contract did not provide it with access to information that created an unfair competitive advantage. 2. Protest that agency improperly evaluated the relevance of awardee's experience and past performance is denied where the agency reasonably considered the relevance of the contracts submitted by the awardee and assigned ratings consistent with the awardee's overall experience and past performance. 3. Protest challenging the agency's price realism evaluation is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated the awardee's pricing and where a more in-depth price analysis was not required by the solicitation. DECISION Mortgage Contracting Services, LLC (MCS), of Lewisville, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Information Systems and Networks Corporation (ISN), of Bethesda, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 12SAD119R0003, issued by the Department of Agriculture (USDA), for property preservation and inspection services. The protester alleges that the agency unreasonably evaluated ISN's price and non-price proposals as well as the relevance of ISN's experience and past performance. The protester further contends that the USDA did not meaningfully investigate ISN's organizational conflict of interest (OCI).

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