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B-420038 Oct 28, 2021 1 (2021-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaomjk0001 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: Deloitte & Touche LLP File: B-420038 Date: October 28, 2021 David Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., and Rhina M. Cardenal, Esq., Cordatis LLP, for the protester. Craig A. Holman, Esq., and Amanda Sherwood, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for Ernst & Young LLP, the intervenor. Catherine Chen, Esq., Michael Giordano, Esq., and Marcela Liddick, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. David A. Edelstein, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency's evaluation of protester's technical quotation is denied where the agency reasonably applied the solicitation's evaluation criteria in determining that aspects of the protester's quotation met, but did not exceed, the solicitation's requirements. 2. Protest of agency's evaluation of awardee's technical quotation is dismissed where the protest fails to identify any violation by the agency of the terms of the solicitation. 3. Protest of agency's price evaluation methodology is denied because the protester cannot demonstrate competitive prejudice where the agency reasonably found the awardee superior on non-price evaluation factors and the protester cannot demonstrate that the agency should have evaluated its price as lower than the awardee's price. DECISION Deloitte & Touche LLP, of Arlington, Virginia, protests the award of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) and task order to Ernst & Young LLP under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 15F06721 Q0000167, issued by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for audit support services. Deloitte challenges the agency's evaluation of technical quotations, price evaluation methodology, and best-value tradeoff. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

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