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B-416934 1 (2019-01-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvlv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. .................................................................................................................. Matter of: Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. File: B-416934 Date: January 15, 2019 John R. Prairie, Esq., and Cara L. Lasley, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. William A. Shook, Esq., The Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for Dev Technology Group, Inc., the intervenor. Stephanie Quade, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Joshua R. Gillerman, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of quotations is sustained where the agency's evaluation documentation is inadequate to support the reasonableness of the agency's disparate treatment of quotations. DECISION Soft Tech Consulting, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, protests its elimination from the competition under request for quotations (RFQ) No.70SBUR1 8Q00000249, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, for software development services. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably and disparately evaluated quotations. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued on June 15, 2018, via the General Services Administration's (GSA) e-Buy portal, under the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, to small business vendors holding a GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract under Schedule 70, special item number 132-51 (Information Technology Professional Services). Agency Report (AR), Tab 13, Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 2. The RFQ contemplated the award of a task order for development, security, and operations (DevDecOps) services to support the agency's information technology (IT) systems. AR, Tab 3, Performance Work Statement (PWS), at 1. The

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