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B-420959.13,B-420959.9 Jan 11, 2024 1 (2024-01-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaopte0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 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: Central Care, Inc. File: B-420959.9; B-420959.13 Date: January 11, 2024 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman Attorneys at Law, for the protester. Kimberly L. Cohen, Esq., and Dima AI-Attar, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Kyle E. Gilbertson, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of its quotation and resulting elimination from competition is denied where record shows that evaluation was reasonable, and exclusion was consistent with solicitation's mandatory down-select provisions. DECISION Central Care, Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia, protests its exclusion from consideration for award under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 70B03C22Q00000081, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), for medical screening services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its phase I quotation, and the resulting decision to exclude Central Care from phase II of the competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the initial RFQ in July 2022, to holders of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Contract 621 I, Professional and Allied Healthcare Staffing Services, pursuant to the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFQ at 1-2;1 Contracting 1 Citations are to the Adobe PDF document page numbers. References to the RFQ are to the conformed amendment A13 version found at tab 3 of the agency report.

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