About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-420877,B-420877.2 Oct 13, 2022 1 (2022-10-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaonue0001 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: eKuber Ventures, Inc. File: B-420877; B-420877.2 Date: October 13, 2022 Lewis P. Rhodes, Esq., and Orest Jowyk, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned LLC, for the protester. Richard D. Kelley, Esq., Bean, Kinney & Korman P.C., for Highlight Technologies, Inc., the intervenor. Shirin E. Ahlhauser, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Sarah T. Zaffina, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of the protester's quotation is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest alleging that the agency engaged in disparate treatment in the evaluation of quotations is denied where the different evaluation results were reasonably based on substantive differences between the quotations. DECISION eKuber Ventures, Inc. (eKuber), a small disadvantaged business of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a call order to Highlight Technologies, Inc. (Highlight), a small business of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. No. 47HAA022Q0093, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Office of Public Buildings IT (information technology) Services. The solicitation seeks professional support services for enterprise data analytics shared services (DASS). eKuber challenges the agency's evaluation of its quotation under the technical capability and staffing approach evaluation factors as unreasonable, unequal, and inconsistent with the evaluation criteria. eKuber also challenges the agency's best-value tradeoff analysis. We deny the protest.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most