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B-419744 Jun 30, 2021 1 (2021-06-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaomax0001 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 Decision Matter of: AvantGarde LLC File: B-419744 Date: June 30, 2021 William A. Shook, Esq., Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for the protester. Suzanne M. Steffen, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that request for quotations is defective for failure to provide sufficient information is denied where solicitation provides extensive information about the required services in five specialized areas, and where information about the distribution of services among the five areas under the incumbent contract was not shown to be essential for competitors to prepare quotations intelligently or for the competition to be held on a relatively equal and fair basis. 2. Protest that request for quotations contained contradictory language regarding award criteria is denied where the solicitation expressly specified a best-value tradeoff using three factors, and when the solicitation was read as a whole, a statement in one factor that proposing better labor categories may receive a higher rating did not indicate that award would instead be made to the lowest-priced technically acceptable quotation. DECISION AvantGarde LLC, of Round Rock, Texas, a small business, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. N6449821 Q5057, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Command, for human resource specialist services for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD), in Pennsylvania. AvantGarde, the incumbent contractor, argues that the Navy has failed to provide information in the RFQ that is necessary for vendors to compete fairly and on a common basis. We deny the protest.

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