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B-420079 Nov 19, 2021 1 (2021-11-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaomky0001 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: The Ambit Group, LLC File: B-420079 Date: November 19, 2021 Terry L. Elling, Esq., Kelsey M. Hayes, Esq., and Jeremy D. Burkhart, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Gary J. Campbell, Esq., G. Matthew Koehl, Esq., and Lidiya Kurin, Esq., Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, for Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., the intervenor. Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., and Andrew M. Wagner, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that a solicitation's key personnel requirements are unreasonable and unduly restrictive of competition is denied where the agency has demonstrated that the requirements are not unduly restrictive, but rather reasonably limited to the agency's minimum needs. 2. Protest is dismissed where the protester's quotation was rated as no-go under the solicitation's threshold key personnel factor, and the protester did not challenge all of the bases for the agency's no-go rating and elimination of its quotation from the competition, thus failing to establish that it was competitively prejudiced. DECISION The Ambit Group, LLC (Ambit), of Vienna, Virginia, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 70CTD021 Q00000134, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for design development and data analytics for ICE's Repository for Analytics in Virtualized Environment (RAVEN) program. Ambit further challenges ICE's evaluation and elimination of its quotation from the competition. The protester contends that the terms of the RFQ are unduly restrictive of competition, and the agency's evaluation of its quotation is unreasonable and unfair. We deny the protest in part, and dismiss the protest in part.

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