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B-420133.2,B-420133.3,B-420133.4 Dec 20, 2021 1 (2021-12-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaomqu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE G A O 1A 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 L been approved for public release. Matter of: Insight Technology Solutions, Inc. File: B-420133.2; B-420133.3; B-420133.4 Date: December 20, 2021 Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., and Nathaniel J. Greeson, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for A P Ventures, LLC, the intervenor. Andrew M. Wagner, Esq., and Javier A. Farfan, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging the agency's evaluation of awardee's proposal under the management approach factor was unreasonable due to a material misrepresentation in the proposal is sustained where the awardee misrepresented the experience of one of its proposed key personnel, the misrepresentation was material in that the agency relied upon it, and the record indicates that it had a significant impact upon the evaluation. 2. Protest alleging disparate treatment is sustained where the agency found aspects of the awardee's proposal to be advantageous, but did not make the same findings regarding the protester's proposal for substantially indistinguishable features of the offerors' management approaches. DECISION Insight Technology Solutions, Inc., of Bowie, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to A P Ventures, LLC, of Columbia, Maryland, pursuant to fair opportunity proposal request (FOPR) No. 70CTDO21 R00000002, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for information technology (IT) support services for the agency's student and exchange visitor program (SEVP). Insight challenges the agency's evaluation under the management approach factor, including alleging that the awardee's proposal contained a material misrepresentation.

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