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B-415915.2,B-415915.3 1 (2018-08-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvdn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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: Converge Networks Corporation File: B-415915.2; B-415915.3 Date: August 20, 2018 David S. Black, Esq., Amy L. Fuentes, Esq., and Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, and Anthony S. Fernandez, Esq., Law Office of Anthony S. Fernandez, LLC, for the protester. J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., Rebecca E. Pearson, Esq., Christopher G. Griesedieck, Esq., and Spencer P. Williams, Esq., Venable, LLP, for Noblis, Inc., the intervenor. Richard L. Hatfield, Esq., Jonathan D. Tepper, Esq., Kelly Zeng, Esq., and Gregory Matherne, Esq., Department of the Treasury, for the agency. Young S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of a vendor's technical and price quotation is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated the quotation and the evaluation was consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest alleging that the agency performed an unequal evaluation is denied where the protester cannot demonstrate competitive prejudice based on alleged evaluation error. DECISION Converge Networks Corporation of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Noblis, Inc. of Reston, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. TIRNO- 18-0003, issued by the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for acquisition management and transition support services. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated quotations. Converge also argues that the agency's price realism evaluation with regard to Noblis' quotation was unreasonable. We deny the protest.

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