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B-422152,B-422152.2 Jan 16, 2024 1 (2024-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaopti0001 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: IT Concepts, Inc. File: B-422152; B-422152.2 Date: January 16, 2024 Damien C. Specht, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and Victoria Dalcourt Angle, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester. Adam Humphries, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Nathaniel S. Canfield, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of quotations is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation; further, even assuming any errors, the protester cannot demonstrate competitive prejudice in light of the solicitation's highest technically rated with a fair and reasonable price evaluation method. DECISION IT Concepts, Inc., a small business of Vienna, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Agility Technologies, Inc., a small business of Reston, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 12760423Q0231, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for organizational management and support services. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably evaluated quotations and made a flawed source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFQ on August 27, 2023, using the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, to holders of multiple-award schedule contracts for information technology (IT) professional services, and amended it three times. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1; Agency

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