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B-421713.2,B-421713.3 Nov 02, 2023 1 (2023-11-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaopmr0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; D ecis io n We are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Matter of: Lynch Consultants, LLC File: B-421713.2; B-421713.3 Date: November 2, 2023 Richard D. Kelley, Esq., Allison K. Riddle, Esq., and Harrison J. Clinton, Esq., Bean Kinney & Korman, PC, for the protester. Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., James N. Rhodes, Esq., and Annie B. Hudgins, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for 11th Hour Search, LLC, the intervenor. Luis Then, Esq., and Maria DiGiovanni, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a competition for a multiple award schedule task order, protest that the agency misevaluated the protester's quotation and made an unreasonable source selection decision is denied where the evaluation and best-value tradeoff were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Lynch Consultants, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, a small business, protests the issuance of a multiple award schedule order to 11th Hour Search, LLC, of Falls Church, Virginia, also a small business, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 47QFDA23Q0009, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service, for professional financial support services for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, in Bethesda, Maryland. Lynch argues that GSA lacked a valid basis to take corrective action in response to an earlier protest, misevaluated the quotations, and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND GSA issued the RFQ on December 16, 2022, to obtain quotations from service-disabled veteran-owned small business vendors for issuance of a schedule task order under the

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