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B-421070.4 May 08, 2023 1 (2023-05-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaoorz0001 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: Veterans Management Services, Inc. File: B-421070.4 Date: May 8, 2023 Gunjan R. Talati, Esq., Jennifer L. Andrews, Esq., and Kurtis Anderson, Esq., Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, for the protester. Adam Humphries, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Michael P. Price, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's total compensation evaluation of the protester's quotation pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation provision 52.222-46 is sustained where the agency failed to evaluate quotations consistent with that provision. DECISION Veterans Management Services, Inc., a small business of Sterling, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Stafford Consulting Company, Inc., a small business of McLean, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1282B122Q0011, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Forest Service, for acquisition support services. The protester primarily contends that the agency's evaluation of quotations was unreasonable and that the agency's best-value determination was flawed. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On July 29, 2022, USDA issued the RFQ, set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, under the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, seeking quotations for professional acquisition support services for the USDA Forest Service's Special Project Operations Center. Agency Report (AR),

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