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Pasco commissioners uphold award of $32.3M disaster-recovery management contract after protest hearing
Summary
After a contested evaluation and a protest from GrantWorks, the Pasco County BCC upheld the county administrator's decision and awarded a $32,337,119.29 contract to IEM International for CDBG-DR program management, while instructing county attorneys to review the contract with outside counsel.
Pasco County commissioners on Sept. 16 upheld the county administrator's denial of a protest and approved a $32,337,119.29 contract with IEM International to provide program management services for the county's CDBG-DR (Community Development Block Grant ' Disaster Recovery) program.
What happened: Carrie Roberts, purchasing director, briefed the board on a protest filed by GrantWorks after an evaluation committee shortlisted three firms and recommended IEM as the sole awardee. Roberts summarized the protest's four main allegations: evaluator bias, procedural errors, IEM's prior experience (including a Pennsylvania termination matter), and pricing. She said the evaluation committee reconvened on July 29 and voted to uphold its ranking.
GrantWorks' case: Dylan Rivers, attorney for GrantWorks, argued the procurement process was flawed and that there was evidence of bias and inconsistent evaluation procedures. "There's clear evidence of bias that at least one evaluator was…
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