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B-418151 1 (2020-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeanh0001 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 version has been Matter of: Aderas, Inc File: B-418151 Date: January 16, 2020 Richard Kelley, Esq., Bean, Kinney & Korman, PC, for the protester. Zachary Schroeder, Esq., and Jonathan Baker, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the intervenor. Kevin Bolin, Esq., Defense Health Agency, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest asserting that the agency's pre-award exchanges with vendors constituted improper and unequal discussions is denied where the agency conducted meaningful discussions with both the protester and the awardee, and provided an opportunity for the protester to revise or modify its quotation. DECISION Aderas, Inc., a small business of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Concept Plus LLC, a small business of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for quotations' (RFQ) No. HT001 519R001 4 issued by the Defense Health Agency (DHA), for commercial information technology (IT) sustainment and development services in support of the individual longitudinal exposure record (ILER) platform. The protester argues that the agency improperly evaluated Concept Plus's technical approach, failed to conduct a price realism analysis, and failed to provide meaningful and equal discussions. 1 The record is inconsistent as to whether the solicitation is in fact an RFQ or a request for proposals. Compare Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RFQ at 1, with id. at 51. The distinction is not relevant to the resolution of this protest. As this procurement was conducted pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4, this decision will refer to the solicitation as an RFQ.

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