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B-418207,B-418207.2 1 (2020-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeapr0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Community Education Centers, Inc. File: B-418207; B-418207.2 Date: January 24, 2020 Gerard Wimberly, Jr., Esq., Angelina Christina, Esq., Elizabeth Horn, Esq., and Ayman Rizkalla, Esq., Akerman LLP, for the protester. Franklin Turner, Esq., Ethan Brown, Esq., Alexander Major, Esq., and Cara Wulf, Esq., McCarter & English, LLP, for The Kintock Group, Inc., the intervenor. William D. Robinson, Esq., Oleta Vassilopoulos, Esq., and Nihar Vora, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Christine Milne, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly failed to raise protester's high price with the firm during discussions is denied where the record shows that the agency did not find the firm's price unreasonably high; protester has also not shown that the price reasonableness evaluation was unreasonable. 2. Protest that agency improperly failed to raise significant weaknesses and deficiencies with the protester's past performance during discussions is denied where the agency did not find any such weaknesses or deficiencies, and where the protester had an opportunity to address any performance issues noted by the agency. DECISION Community Education Centers, Inc. (CEC), of Boca Raton, Florida, protests the award of a contract to The Kintock Group, Inc., of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFP-200-1360-ES, issued by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), for residential reentry center (RRC) and home confinement services for male and female federal offenders held within the boundaries of Essex, Hudson, or Union County, New Jersey. The protester argues that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions with the firm and improperly evaluated its proposal under the price and past performance evaluation factors. We deny the protest.

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