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B-407273.54,B-407273.61,B-407273.64 1 (2014-06-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqkh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Oasis Systems, LLC File: B-407273.54; B-407273.61; B-407273.64 Date: June 19, 2014 Joseph J. Petrillo, Esq., Karen D. Powell, Esq., and Sophia Z. Watson, Esq., Petrillo & Powell, PLLC, for the protester. Charles K. Bucknor, Jr., Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's reevaluation of protester's proposal under corporate experience factor is unobjectionable where agency was not required to consider the results of the initial evaluation and the reevaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Agency's reevaluation of protester's proposal under small business participation approach factor is reasonable where agency credited protester for exceeding certain subcontracting goals but identified a conflict in the proposal submissions. 3. Protester's challenge to agency's price reasonableness evaluation is denied where record shows an evaluation consistent with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the solicitation, and protester's argument primarily relies on its relatively low price as the baseline for comparison. 4. Agency's best value determination is unobjectionable where record shows an adequately-documented source selection that justifies awards to higher-rated, higher-priced offerors. DECISION Oasis Systems, LLC, of Lexington, Massachusetts, protests the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) decision not to award the firm a contract under the functional category 2 unrestricted track of request for proposals (RFP) No. HSHQDC-1 1 -R-1 0001, issued by DHS for information technology (IT) services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal under the

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