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B-410633,B-410633.2 1 (2015-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqxv0001 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 Decision for pic release. Matter of: Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC File: B-410633; B-410633.2 Date: January 20, 2015 Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., and Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for the protester. Steven J. Koprince, Esq., and Amanda M. Wilwert, Esq., Petefish, Immel, Heeb & Hird, LLP, for 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., an intervenor. Azine Farzami, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency applied unstated evaluation criterion against protester's staffing plan is denied where record reflects agency findings concerned matters logically encompassed in solicitation's evaluation scheme. 2. Protest that agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated relevance of protester's and awardee's past performance is denied where record reflects evaluation was reasonable and consistent with terms of solicitation. DECISION Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, of Blacksburg, Virginia, protests the award of a contract by the Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, to 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. AG-3151-S-14-0052 for information technology services. Harmonia alleges that the agency's evaluation of proposals was flawed in various respects. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on August 12, 2014 as a total small business set-aside, contemplated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract and initial task order. RFP at 1, 41, 186. The contract was to have

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