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B-419088.4 Jul 29, 2022 1 (2022-07-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaonlq0001 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: Navarre Corporation File: B-419088.4 Date: July 29, 2022 William M. Weisberg, Esq., Law Offices of William Weisberg, for the protester. Sarah Schauerte Reida, Esq., Legal Meets Practical, LLC, for KTS Solutions, Inc., the intervenor. Laetitia C. Coleman, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Emily R. O'Hara, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluations of the protester's and awardee's quotations is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated quotations in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Navarre Corporation, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Navarre, Florida, protests the issuance of an order to KTS Solutions, Inc., of Portsmouth, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C2462000421, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for wheelchair van transportation services. Navarre contends the agency's evaluation of quotations and the resulting award decision were unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was issued pursuant to the simplified acquisition procedures set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFQ at 43. The RFQ, issued on June 4, 2020, as a SDVOSB set-aside, contemplated the award of a fixed-priced contract for a base period and one 1-year option. Id. at 1, 4-7. Award would be made on a best-value tradeoff basis, using the following evaluation factors: technical, past performance, and price. Id. at 43, 46. Technical and past performance, when combined, were significantly more important than price. Id. at 46.

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