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        G     A    O                                                  Comptroller General
      Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability                          of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548



         Decision


         Matter of:   National Disability Rights Network, Inc.

         File:        B-413528

         Date:     November 16, 2016

         Curtis Decker and Janice K. Johnson Hunter, Esq., for the protester.
         Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., and Matthew P. Moriarty,
         Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for Information Systems and Networks Corporation, an
         intervenor.
         Justin Coon, Esq., Uri R. Ko, Esq., Jennifer M. Siegel, Esq., and Ryan M.
         Warrenfeltz, Sr., Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency.
         Gabriel D. Soil, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         1. Protest is denied where the record demonstrates reasonable technical
         evaluation despite protester's disagreement.

         2. Protest of past performance evaluation is denied where the record shows the
         agency reasonably considered prior performance references and was not required
         to ignore negative information merely because positive information also existed.

         3. Protest of inadequate best value determination and improper conversion of
         award criteria is denied when the record demonstrates properly documented
         consideration of price and technical evaluations.

         4. Protest that agency failed to analyze awardee's proposal for price realism is
         denied when the solicitation did not announce the intent to conduct such an
         evaluation.
         DECISION

         National Disability Rights Network, Inc., (NDRN) of Washington, D.C., protests the
         award of a contract to Information Systems and Networks Corporation (ISN), of
         Bethesda, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SSA-RFP-16-1009,
         issued by the Social Security Administration for the management of the agency's
         representative payee program. NDRN primarily challenges the agency's evaluation

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