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B-418949,B-418949.2,B-418949.3 1 (2020-10-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebzh0001 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: Amaze Technologies, LLC File: B-418949; B-418949.2; B-418949.3 Date: October 16, 2020 Shane M. McCall, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for the protester. Thomas Craig, Emily Spence, Esq., Marlena Ewald, FH+H, PLLC, for the intervenor. Leigh Ann Bunetta, Esq., Federal Acquisition Service, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Challenge to the agency's evaluation of experience and past performance of the awardee, a joint venture, is denied where the evaluation was consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable small business regulations. DECISION Amaze Technologies, LLC, a small business joint venture of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Karthik Consulting, LLC, of Reston, Virginia, under request for task order proposals (RTOP) No. ID08200019, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for support services for the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center. Amaze asserts that GSA unreasonably evaluated its offer under the experience and past performance factors, and treated it disparately in the evaluation. Amaze also complains that the contracting officer improperly changed the rating assigned by the technical evaluation team (TET) to Amaze's proposal under the experience factor without justification. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND GSA issued the solicitation for task order proposals to provide defensive cyber operations for space agile release teams to the Air Force. Agency Report (AR), Exh. 1, RTOP at 19.1 Specifically, the Air Force was seeking a broad range of acquisition 1 Citations to the record are to the numbered pages provided by the agency in its report.

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