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B-409065,B-409065.2,B-409065.3 1 (2014-01-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqpa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * 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: Electrosoft Services, Inc. File: B-409065; B-409065.2; B-409065.3 Date: January 27, 2014 Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., and Scott F. Lane, Esq., Thompson Coburn LLP, for the protester. Patricia Hammar, PKH Enterprises LLC, for the intervenor. Roger A. Hipp, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was flawed in three areas: (1) the agency unreasonably evaluated the experience of the awardee's proposed program manager; (2) the agency's evaluation of the protester's past performance did not consider the entirety of the protester's quote; and (3) although the agency concedes that the vendors' quotes offered similar technical approaches, the agency does not explain the basis for assigning the awardee's quote a higher rating. DECISION Electrosoft Services, Inc., of Reston Virginia, protests the award of a task order to PKH Enterprises LLC, of Bethesda, Maryland under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HSHQDC-13-Q-00226, issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) program management support. Electrosoft challenges the reasonableness of DHS's evaluation of the vendors' quotes and the award decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued on July 3, 2013, as a small business set-aside. DHS solicited quotations from 14 vendors who held contracts under the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) No. 70, special item number

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