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B-417840.4 1 (2020-04-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebce0001 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 1been approved for public release. Matter of: AKAL Security, Inc. File: B-417840.4 Date: April 27, 2020 Keith C. Mier, Esq., and Travis R. Steele, Esq., Butler Snow LLP, for the protester. John R. Tolle, Esq., and H. Todd Whay, Esq., Baker, Cronogue, Tolle & Werfel, LLP, for VMD Systems Integrators, Inc., the intervenor. Michael Kiffney, Esq., and Christopher Reames, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals and best-value tradeoff award decision is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation and award decision were reasonable and in accordance with the stated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that the agency failed to evaluate to awardee's proposal for price realism is denied where the stated evaluation criteria did not call for a price realism evaluation. DECISION Akal Security, Inc., of Espahola, New Mexico, protests the issuance of a task order to VMD Systems Integrators, Inc., of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 70T05018R5NSPP040 by the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), for security screening services at the Kansas City International Airport (MCI).' The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals and the best-value tradeoff award decision.2 1 The airport was originally called Mid-Continent International Airport, or MCI, and the International Air Transportation Association adopted MCI as the airport's designator code. See www.flykci.com/about-us/kci-airport/ (last visited Apr. 24, 2020). 2 Although this is a task order competition under a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, the agency issued the solicitation as an RFP rather

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