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B-415155.4,B-415155.5 1 (2018-05-18)

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GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            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-415155.4; B-415155.5

Date:       May 18, 2018

Alexander B. Ginsberg, 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

Protest challenging the agency's reevaluation of quotations under technical factor is
sustained where the record shows that the reevaluation was inconsistent with the terms
of the solicitation and not adequately documented.
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. Our Office previously sustained Immersion's protest challenging the
agency's prior award to NetImpact. See Immersion Consulting, LLC, B-415155,
B-415155.2, Dec. 4, 2017, 2017 CPD  373. The protester challenges several aspects
of the agency's evaluation and the source selection authority's (SSA's) revised selection
decision.

We sustain the protest.

BACKGROUND

The solicitation was issued on April 17, 2017, to holders of the General Services

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