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B-414760.3,B-414760.4 1 (2018-10-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvdf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has D ebeen approved for public is . ...............................rel Matter of: Biswas Information Technology Solutions, Inc. File: B-414760.3; B-414760.4 Date: October 5, 2018 Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Robert Starling, Esq., and Travis L. Mullaney, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., and Bryan R. King, Esq., Offit Kurman Attorneys at Law, for BA-ZAI JV, LLC, the intervenor. Anthony E. Marrone, Esq., and Seeta Rebbapragada, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated protester's and awardee's proposals is denied where record shows that evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation. 2. Protest that agency conducted unreasonable price realism evaluation of awardee's proposal is denied where record shows that agency identified awardee's lower staffing level and labor rates, and reasonably determined that staffing level was offset by proposed software tools and that labor rates did not indicate unrealistic pricing. DECISION Biswas Information Technology Solutions, Inc. (BITS), of Herndon, Virginia, a small business, protests the award of a contract to BA-ZAI JV, LLC, of Rockville, Maryland, also a small business,1 under request for proposals (RFP) No. 16-223-SOL-001 01, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for data management and support services. The protester argues that the FDA misevaluated the proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision. 1 BA-ZAI JV identifies itself as a Small Business Administration (SBA)-approved 8(a) Program mentor-prot6g6 joint venture between BarnAllen Technologies, Inc. and Zimmerman Associates, Inc., a team member on the incumbent contract.

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