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B-420733,B-420733.2 Aug 09, 2022 1 (2022-08-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaonpj0001 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: Ekagra Partners, LLC File: B-420733; B-420733.2 Date: August 9, 2022 Jon D. Levin, Esq., W. Brad English, Esq., Emily J. Chancey, Esq., Joshua Duvall, Esq., and Nicolas Greer, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale PC, for the protester. Christian B. Nagel, Esq., Hillary J. Freund, Esq., and Kelsey M. Hayes, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Paradyme Management, Inc., the intervenor. Wilmary Bernal, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Kasia Dourney, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging evaluation of the protester's key personnel and its proposed technical approach for one of the call orders is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protester is not an interested party to challenge the evaluation of quotations and resulting award decision where the protester was not eligible for award as a result of submitting a technically unacceptable quotation. DECISION Ekagra Partners, LLC, a small business of Leesburg, Virginia, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) and the issuance of two call orders to Paradyme Management, Inc., also a small business of Greenbelt, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1333LB21Q00000010. The RFQ was issued by the Department of Commerce, United States Census Bureau, for tools catalog support services. Ekagra challenges the agency's technical, past performance, and price evaluations, and the reasonableness of the agency's source selection. The protester also argues that the agency conducted misleading discussions. We deny the protest in part, and dismiss it in part.

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