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B-419469 Mar 19, 2021 1 (2021-03-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaolgp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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 a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; D ecision -weare therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Matter of: ISS Action, Inc. File: B-419469 Date: March 19, 2021 Robert K. Tompkins, Esq., Hillary J. Freund, Esq., and Kelsey M. Hayes, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Jeffrey E. Weinstein, Esq., Weinstein Law Group, PLLC, for Montech Inc., the intervenor. JiSan A. Lopez, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency misevaluated the awardee's proposal as technically acceptable is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION ISS Action, Inc., of Jamaica, New York, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Montech Inc., of Albuquerque, New Mexico,1 under request for proposals (RFP) No. 89233120RNA000078, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), for security services at the agency's Albuquerque complex campus and the Albuquerque complex project administrative building (currently under construction), which are located on Kirtland Air Force Base, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ISS argues that DOE misevaluated Montech's proposal as technically acceptable. We deny the protest. 1 Montech represented that it was a small business in connection with the RFP. The agency states that a challenge to Montech's size is pending before the Small Business Administration's Office of Hearings and Appeals, and that the agency has left the contract in place pending the outcome. Agency Report (AR) Memorandum of Law (MOL), at 12 n.3.

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