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B-415491.2,B-415491.3 1 (2018-08-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvbf0001 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 I The decision issued on the date below was subject to I a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision .been approved for public release. Matter of: Kreative Technologies, LLC File: B-415491.2; B-415491.3 Date: August 27, 2018 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., and Bryan R. King, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for the protester. Ronald S. Perlman, Esq., and Rodney M. Perry, Esq., Holland & Knight, LLP, for Aderas, Inc., the intervenor. Timothy J. Haight, Esq., and Kevin E. Bolin, Esq., Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency, and John W. Klein, Esq. and Sam Q. Le, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated quotations under past performance and price factors in competition for Federal Supply Schedule order is denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation's evaluation criteria. DECISION Kreative Technologies, LLC, of Fairfax, Virginia, a small business, protests the issuance of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) order to Aderas, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, also a small business, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HT001 5-17-R-001 3 (also identified as eBuy RFQ No. RFQ1238304) issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency (DHA), for commercial healthcare artifact and image management solution (HAIMS) sustainment services for the DHA Solutions Delivery Directorate (SDD), in Falls Church, Virginia. The protest argues that DHA misevaluated both vendors' past performance and prices, made an unreasonable source selection decision, and improperly deemed Kreative not responsible. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued September 7, 2017, sought quotations from small business FSS contractors under Schedule 70 (the general purpose commercial information technology

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