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B-419306,B-419306.2 1 (2021-01-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecho0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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: AttainX, Inc. File: B-419306; B-419306.2 Date: January 12, 2021 Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., Ian Patterson, Esq., and John Mattox, Esq., Schoonover + Moriarty LLC, for the protester. Antonio Robinson, Esq., United States Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably eliminated quotation from consideration for award because protester proposed the same key personnel in its quotation submitted in response to a related solicitation, for which it received an award, is denied where solicitation for which protester's quotation was eliminated specifically prohibited vendors from offering the same key personnel under both solicitations. DECISION AttainX, Inc., a small business of Herndon, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to B&B Solutions, a small business of Washington, D.C., under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1231442000042 (RFQ 0042), which was issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for investigative support services. AttainX complains that its quotation was unreasonably eliminated from the competition because it proposed the same key personnel for RFQ 0042, as well as a separate solicitation for which it received an award. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued RFQ 0042 on June 19, 2020, as a set-aside under the Small Business Administration's 8(a) business development program for legal investigative services for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (OASCR). Resp. to Req. for Documents, Doc. 2, RFQ 0042 at 1, 4. Specifically, the solicitation sought vendors to review investigative plans, obtain information (including statistics and testimony), update the complaint system, prepare the investigative file, and distribute

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