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B-419301.6,B-419301.7 Jun 29, 2021 1 (2021-06-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaomab0001 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 Decision 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: M ayvi n, Inc. File: B-419301.6; B-419301.7 Date: June 29, 2021 Stephanie D. Wilson, Esq., and Terrence M. O'Connor, Esq., Berenzweig Leonard, LLP, for the protester. E. Sanderson Hoe, Esq., and Andrew R. Guy, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for Bennett Aerospace, Inc., the intervenor. Joni M. Gibson, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging disparate treatment is sustained where the record shows that the agency failed to reasonably evaluate the protester's quotation in accordance with the performance work statement and assessed a significant benefit in the awardee's quotation, but not the protester's, for substantively indistinguishable features of the vendors' employee recruitment and retention plans. DECISION Mayvin, Inc., a small business of Annandale, Virginia, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA), with Bennett Aerospace, Inc., a small business of Raleigh, North Carolina, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 15M10420QA4100007, issued by the Department of Justice, United States Marshal Service (USMS), for executive, administrative, and professional support 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 In April 2020, the agency issued the solicitation, as a small business set-aside, under the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4. The RFQ was issued to firms holding General Services Administration's (GSA), Professional Services Schedule (PSS) contracts for mission-oriented business integrated services with special

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