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B-420247 Jan 12, 2022 1 (2022-01-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaomqv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 D e cisi+o n a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has D ecision been approved for public release. Matter of: BNP Education Partners LLC d/b/a Marzano Research File: B-420247 Date: January 12, 2022 Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Meghan F. Leemon, Esq., Anna R. Wright, Esq., and Anna G. Sullivan, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Paula S. Hughes, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging evaluation of protester's proposal and exclusion of proposal from the competitive range is denied where the agency's evaluation was largely reasonable and there is no evidence that the protester was prejudiced by evaluation errors. Further, the agency's competitive range determination was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION BNP Education Partners LLC d/b/a Marzano Research (Marzano), a small business of Denver, Colorado, protests its exclusion from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. 91990020R0032 issued by the Department of Education for regional education laboratories.1 Marzano contends that the evaluators ignored or misread information in the firm's proposal, applied unstated evaluation criteria, or otherwise evaluated in a manner inconsistent with the solicitation. We deny the protest. 1 Although the agency refers to the solicitation as a request for quotations and firms as vendors submitting quotations, the solicitation identifies itself as an RFP. Because the agency used negotiated procurement procedures to award a contract, rather than issue an order, we refer to firms that competed here as offerors who submitted proposals.

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