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B-417846.4,B-417846.5 1 (2020-04-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebak0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Ace-Federal Reporters, Inc. File: B-417846.4; B-417846.5 Date: April 23, 2020 Michael D. McGill, Esq., and Thomas A. Pettit, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, for the protester. John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., Sarah A. Hill, Esq., and Christopher D. Garcia, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Heritage Reporting Corp., the intervenor. Charles S. Pino, Esq., and Gina K. Grippando, Esq., United States International Trade Commission, for the agency. Andrew J. Smith, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation under the technical factor is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 2. Protest alleging that the awardee would not comply with transcript formatting requirement is dismissed, where the allegation involves matters of contract administration and there is no significant countervailing evidence reasonably known to the agency evaluators that should create doubt whether the vendor will or can comply with the requirement. 3. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of past performance is denied, where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation, and there is no evidence that the evaluators ignored adverse information about which they should have been aware. 4. Protest alleging that the awardee's quotation violated the solicitation's subcontracting limitation clause is denied where the awardee's quotation did not indicate that the awardee took exception to the limitation. DECISION Ace-Federal Reporters, Inc., a small business of Washington, District of Columbia, protests the award of a contract to Heritage Reporting Corp., also a small business of