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B-415528,B-415528.2 1 (2018-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduir0001 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: Heskett and Heskett Services File: B-415528; B-415528.2 Date: January 16, 2018 Joseph A. Whitcomb, Esq., Whitcomb, Selinsky, McAuliffe, PC, for the protester. Pawandeep Bhandari, Esq., and William Robinson, Esq., U.S. Department of Justice, 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 Heskett and Heskett Services (H&H), a women-owned small business of Terre Haute, Indiana, protests the award of a contract to Colette M. Shepherd (Shepherd), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQP01 141700037, issued by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), for a Life Connections Program (LCP) transition coordinator at the Federal Corrections Complex Petersburg, in Hopewell, Virginia. H&H argues that the agency improperly evaluated the quotations and made an erroneous best-value tradeoff determination, and alleges other improprieties in the agency's conduct of the procurement. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued on July 11, 2017, under the simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13. The solicitation contemplated the award of a single indefinite delivery/requirements type contract for a 1-year base period and four 1-year option periods, with fixed-price units. RFQ at 1, 21. The solicitation sought a transition coordinator who would provide religious instruction to a religiously-diverse group of inmates transitioning from incarceration to freedom, in support of the LCP. Id. at 5. The procurement was set aside for women-owned small businesses. Id. at 1. The RFQ announced that the agency would make an award based on the quotation that was determined to represent the best value to the government considering price, technical capability, and past performance history. Id. at 24. Technical capability was

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