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B-409015 1 (2014-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqle0001 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 Decision .been approved for public release. Matter of: Iron Vine Security, LLC File: B-409015 Date: January 22, 2014 Gregory S. Jacobs, Esq., Joelle E.K. Laszlo, Esq., and Carlos A. Valdivia, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for the protester. Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., and Kelly A. Krystyniak, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the intervenor. Anthony E. Marrone, Esq., and Erin V. Podolny, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency failed to evaluate the realism of vendors' proposed prices is sustained where the record shows that the agency did not conduct a price realism analysis of proposed labor rates, as required by the solicitation. DECISION Iron Vine Security, LLC, of Washington, D.C, protests the issuance of a task order to Spann & Associates, Inc., of Lake Mary, Florida, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HHSM-500-2013-RFQ-0013, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), for information system security support. Iron Vine argues that the agency failed to evaluate the realism of the vendors' proposed prices as required by the solicitation. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On June 25, 2013, CMS posted the RFQ on the General Services Administration's (GSA) e-Buy website. The solicitation was issued as a total small business set- aside under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, and sought quotes from vendors holding FSS contracts under Schedule No. 70, General Purpose Commercial Information

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