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B-415155,B-415155.2 1 (2017-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadubb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Immersion Consulting, LLC File: B-415155; B-415155.2 Date: December 4, 2017 Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., J. Matthew Carter, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Terry L. Elling, Esq., and Rodney M. Perry, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for NetImpact Strategies, Inc., an intervenor. Hattie Russell DuBois, Esq., and William C. Moorhouse, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a procurement which provided for award on a best-value tradeoff basis, a source selection authority's (SSA) selection of a lower-priced quotation on the basis that the two quotations were technically equal is unreasonable where the SSA's rationale for removing strengths and weaknesses assessed by the source selection evaluation board is not meaningfully explained in the record and otherwise appears inconsistent with the contemporaneous evaluation record and the solicitation. DECISION Immersion Consulting, LLC, of Annapolis, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4 to NetImpact Strategies, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, under solicitation No. 1186423, issued by the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA), for program management support services. The protester challenges the evaluation of quotations and the selection decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was issued on April 17, 2017, to holders of the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) No. 874-4 for integrated business

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