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B-420153 Dec 01, 2021 1 (2021-12-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaommx0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision approved for public release. Matter of: Fors Marsh Group, LLC File: B-420153 Date: December 1, 2021 Kelley P. Doran, Esq., G. Matthew Koehl, Esq., Lidiya Kurin, Esq., and Miles McCann, Esq., Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, for the protester. Ron R. Hutchinson, Esq., Doyle & Bachman LLP, for Mathematica Policy Research; and Daniel R. Forman, Esq., and James G. Peyster, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Abt Associates, Inc., the intervenors. Paula S. Hughes, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the non-selection of the protester's quotation for the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation's applicable evaluation criteria. DECISION Fors Marsh, Group, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, protests its non-selection for a multiple- award, blanket purchase agreement (BPA), under Request for Quotations (RFQ) No. 91990021 R0020, which was issued by the Department of Education (DOE), Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, for systematic reviews of research evidence and the development of a series of What Works ClearinghouseTM (WWC) publications.1 Fors Marsh primarily challenges the evaluation of its quotation, and the agency's subsequent decision to exclude the quotation from the competitive range. We deny the protest. 1 The agency established BPAs with: (1) Abt Associates, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland; (2) American Institute for Research, of Arlington, Virginia; (3) Instructional Research Group, of New York, New York; (4) Mathematica Policy Research, of Washington, D.C.; and (5) SRI International, of Menlo Park, California.

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