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B-420412,B-420412.2 Mar 23, 2022 1 (2022-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaomxx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 D e cisi+o n a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has D ecision been approved for public release. Matter of: CW Government Travel, Inc. d/b/a CWTSato Travel File: B-420412; B-420412.2 Date: March 23, 2022 Lars E. Anderson, Esq., Charlotte R. Rosen, Esq., and James P. Miller, Esq., Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C., for the protester. Jeremiah Strack, Esq., General Services Administration, 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 the solicitation does not provide adequate information or relative weights for technical evaluation criteria to reasonably permit vendors to prepare competitive quotations is denied where the solicitation provides adequate information for vendors to compete intelligently and on an equal basis. 2. Protest that the solicitation improperly fails to state that the agency will perform an unbalanced pricing analysis is denied where it is undisputed that the agency is legally required to analyze unbalanced pricing in its evaluation of vendors' quotations, and the agency states that it will perform such an analysis. 3. Protest that the agency's decision to cancel the prior solicitation and issue a new one after the Court of Federal Claims issued a permanent injunction and enjoined task order performance is evidence of bias in favor of the prior awardee is denied where the agency has provided reasonable justification for its chosen course of corrective action. DECISION CW Government Travel, Inc. (CWT), of Arlington, Virginia, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 47QMCB21Q0026, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) on behalf of the Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Travel Management Office (DTMO) for travel management company (TMC) services. The protester contends that GSA unlawfully cancelled the prior solicitation for this acquisition to avoid correcting the errors in its prior evaluation and issuance of a task order to BCD Travel, USA, LLC (BCD) after the Court of Federal Claims issued a permanent injunction and enjoined performance of that task order. The protester further contends

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