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B-419590,B-419590.2 May 24, 2021 1 (2021-05-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaolsp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: DigiFlight, Inc. File: B-419590; B-419590.2 Date: May 24, 2021 Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., Richard J.R. Raleigh, Jr., Esq., and Christopher L. Lockwood, Esq., Wilmer & Lee, PA, for the protester. David C. Sabine, Esq., and Alexa B. Bryan, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging disparate treatment is sustained where the agency assessed a strength in the awardee's quotation but not in the protester's for substantively indistinguishable features of the vendors' employee retention plans. DECISION DigiFlight Inc., a small business of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the issuance of an order to Navigator Development Group, Inc. (NDGI), a small business of Enterprise, Alabama, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 202P-01 issued by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command-Redstone, for advisory and assistance services. The protester contends that the agency evaluated quotations in a disparate manner, and conducted an unreasonable best-value tradeoff analysis. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On June 15, 2020, the agency issued the solicitation to small business vendors with whom it had previously established blanket purchase agreements (BPA) under the vendors' federal supply schedule (FSS) contracts. Agency Report (AR), Tab 0, Combined Contracting Officer's Statement and Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 2-3. The agency conducted the procurement utilizing the procedures of Federal

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