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B-420858.2 Mar 06, 2023 1 (2023-03-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaooof0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Sprezzatura Management Consulting, LLC File: B-420858.2 Date: March 6, 2023 Daniel J. Strouse, Esq., and Rhina Cardenal, Esq., Cordatis LLP, for the protester. Aleia Barlow, Esq., and Catherine R. Gilabert, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Kasia Dourney, Esq., Uri R. Yoo, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the price realism evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where the agency's use of a standard deviation methodology was reasonable and where the agency properly concluded that the protester's low labor rates presented a risk that warranted its exclusion from further consideration. 2. Protester's proposal was reasonably assessed two weaknesses by the agency, where the proposal failed to include sufficient detail to comply with the solicitation requirements. DECISION Sprezzatura Management Consulting, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of McLean, Virginia, protests the award of multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts to five different firms1 under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C1 0X21 R0022, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for general management and business support services. The protester argues that the agency conducted an unreasonable price realism evaluation, and unreasonably assessed weaknesses to Sprezzatura's technical proposal. 1 The awards were made to ReefPoint Group LLC, of Annapolis, Maryland; 640 Acres, LLC, of Gig Harbor, Washington; Advanced Systems Design, Inc., of Tallahassee, Florida; Tenacity Solutions, LLC, of Reston, Virginia; and Washington Business Dynamics, of Washington, D.C. Agency Report (AR), Tab 10, Unsuccessful Offeror's Letter at 1.

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