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B-419853,B-419853.8 Aug 19, 2021 1 (2021-08-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaombu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo- U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE G A O A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: CSR Enterprises, Inc. File: B-419853; B-419853.8 Date: August 19, 2021 Penny Cox, CSR Enterprises, Inc., the protester. Azine Farzami, Esq., Adam Humphries, Esq., and Elin M. Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated protester's key personnel as unacceptable due to the omission of documentation of key personnel qualifications is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION CSR Enterprises, Inc., of Dallas, Oregon, a small business, protests the establishment of blanket purchase agreements (BPA) with multiple other firms under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1202SC21 Q0001, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for wildland firefighter services. CSR contends that its quotation was misevaluated as no go under the RFQ's quote acceptability factor, that the agency evaluated vendors unequally under that factor, and that the price evaluation failed to assess price realism as the RFQ required. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On January 27, 2021, Agriculture issued the RFQ to procure Type 2 wildland firefighter crews for 34 host unit coordinate centers (HUCC) throughout the United States.1 1 Forest Service handcrews, typically comprised of 20 people, serve as the infantry of wildland firefighters. See Handcrews, https://www.fs.usda.gov/science-technology/ fire/people/handcrews (last visited, July 7, 2021). There are five types of handcrews: (continued...)

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