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B-420450.2 Jun 29, 2022 1 (2022-06-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaonhx0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: B&M Consulting Group, Inc. File: B-420450.2 Date: June 29, 2022 William T. Welch, Esq., and J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, for the protester. Terry L. Elling, Esq., Sean Belanger, Esq., and Danielle Rich, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Iron Vine, LLC, the intervenor. Eric C. Crane, Esq., Department of Treasury, for the agency. Christine Milne, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's quotation as technically unacceptable is denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable in light of the protester's failure to submit an adequately written quotation. DECISION B&M Consulting Group, Inc., a small business of Rockville, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Iron Vine Security, LLC, a small business of Washington, D.C., under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 2031JW22Q00022, issued by the Department of Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), for cybersecurity support services. B&M, the incumbent contractor, contends that the agency unreasonably evaluated its quotation as technically unacceptable and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff analysis. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued on October 6, 2021, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12 and subpart 8.4, to vendors holding General Services Administration multiple award schedule Information Technology-IT Services, Special Item Number (SIN) 5451 HACS, Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services contracts, to obtain comprehensive cybersecurity support services. Agency Report (AR), Exh. B, RFQ,

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