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B-418626.8 Apr 05, 2021 1 (2021-04-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaoljz0001 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. The entire decision has been approved for public release. Matter of: Zolon PCS, LLC File: B-418626.8 Date: April 5, 2021 J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned LLC, for the protester. Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Isaias Cy Alba, IV, Esq., and Christine C. Fries, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for swiftlNTEL JV; Eric S. Crusius, Esq., Amy L. Fuentes, Esq., and Kelsey M. Hayes, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for IT Concepts, Inc., the intervenors. Alice M. Somers, Esq., Dorothy M. Guy, Esq., and Virginia A. Pizza, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation and best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the evaluation of the protester's quotation was reasonable, including under the past performance evaluation factor, and dismissed to the extent the protester contends that the agency failed to assess risk in the awardees' lower-priced quotations. DECISION Zolon PCS, LLC,1 of Ashburn, Virginia, protests the establishment of blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) with five vendors2 under request for quotations (RFQ) 1 Zolon is identified as a joint venture between Zolon Tech, Inc., and Pioneer Corporate Services, Inc. Agency Report (AR), Tab 7, Technical Evaluation Panel (TEP) Report, July 7, 2020, at 8. 2 The five successful vendors were identified as: swiftlNTEL JV, of Ellicott City, Maryland; IT Concepts, Inc., of Vienna, Virginia; Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., of Montgomery, Alabama; Team Free Alliance LLC, a contractor teaming arrangement with Mission Services Inc., of McLean, Virginia; and Spatial Front Incorporated of McLean, Virginia. AR, Tab 10, Notice of Award, Jan. 19, 2021, at 2; AR, Tab 6, Summary of Award with Corrective Action, Jan. 12, 2021, at 1.

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