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B-418535 1 (2020-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebfb0001 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 Decision Matter of: American Systems Group File: B-418535 Date: June 9, 2020 Ritobrata Banerjee, for the protester. Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Capt. Seiji Ohashi, Department of the Air Force, 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 that the agency improperly conducted a price realism evaluation and failed to request additional information from the protester prior to rejecting the firm's quotation is dismissed where the allegations are untimely challenges to alleged defects evident from the face of the solicitation. 2. Protest that the agency's price realism evaluation did not comply with the terms of the solicitation is dismissed as untimely, where the record shows that the protester could have raised the allegation in its initial protest, but failed to do so. DECISION American Systems Group (ASG), of San Diego, California, protests the award of a contract to Summit Services, Inc., of Black Mountain, North Carolina, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA4690-19-Q-A035 by the Department of the Air Force for administrative support services. The protester challenges the agency's decision to reject the firm's quotation as being unrealistic pursuant to a price realism evaluation. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on September 16, 2019, as a competitive set-aside for participants in the Small Business Administration's Historically Underutilized Business Zone program, sought quotations to provide administrative support services, including standardization and evaluation program support, security administration management, as well as

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