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B-418016 1 (2019-12-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaealc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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: MindPetal Software Solutions, Inc. File: B-418016 Date: December 20, 2019 Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., Michael E. Stamp, Esq., and Scott M. Dinner, Esq., ProTorae Law, PLLC, for the protester. Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, and Jonathan L. Spear, Esq., for Centennial Technologies, Inc.; Meghan F. Leemon, Esq., Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Patrick K. Burns, Esq., and Emily J. Rouleau, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for iWorks Corporation, the intervenors. Kehinde Stinson, Esq., and Michael S. Taylor, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Uri R. Yoo, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency improperly assessed multiple deficiencies to the protester's proposal is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the proposal did not substantively address a number of solicitation requirements. 2. Protester is not an interested party to raise other challenges to the agency's evaluations and award decision where the agency reasonably found the protester's proposal to be technically unacceptable. DECISION MindPetal Software Solutions, Inc., a small business concern of Vienna, Virginia, protests the award of contracts to Centennial Technologies, Inc., of Leesburg, Virginia, iWorks Corporation, of Reston, Virginia, and PPS InfoTech, LLC, of Rockville, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 910031-19-R-0003, issued by the Department of Education, Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), for enterprise middleware architecture and services. MindPetal contends that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable best-value determination. We deny the protest.

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