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B-418047.5,B-418047.6 1 (2020-11-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecax0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 0U.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: Battelle Memorial Institute File: B-418047.5; B-418047.6 Date: November 18, 2020 Marques O. Peterson, Esq., J. Matthew Carter, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., and Robert C. Starling, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Michael F. Mason, Esq., Christine A. Reynolds, Esq., and Adilene Rosales, Esq., Hogan Lovells, for CSRA, LLC, the intervenor. Elise Harris, Esq. and Corey J. Thompson, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency disparately evaluated proposals is denied because the record reflects that the differences in evaluations were a result of differences in proposals. 2. Protest that agency failed to explain basis for a new weakness assessed in protester's proposal during reevaluation is denied because the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with its prior evaluation. 3. Protest that agency arbitrarily assigned point scores to offerors' proposals without explaining how the strengths and weaknesses assessed in the proposals translated into the assigned point scores is denied because the record reflects the agency undertook a detailed consideration of each strength and weakness assessed in offerors' proposals. 4. Protest that the agency's best-value tradeoff ignored the relative importance of evaluation factors set forth in the solicitation is denied because the agency's source selection decision was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Battelle Memorial Institute, of Columbus, Ohio, protests the issuance of a task order to CSRA, LLC, of Falls Church, Virginia, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. 75D301-19-R-67964, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for consultation, research, and

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