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B-415716.37 Oct 21, 2019 1 (2019-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaolok0001 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
Decision                             The decision issued on the date below was subject to
a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
been approved for public release.
Matter of:  Flairsoft, Ltd.
File:     B-415716.37
Date:     October 21, 2019
Matthew R. Keller, Esq., and Luke J. Archer, Esq., Praemia Law, PLLC, for the
protester.
Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Kevin P. Stiens, Esq., and
Major Celina E. Duvall, Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal under the technical
experience evaluation factor is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was
reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.
DECISION
Flairsoft, Ltd., a small business of Columbus, Ohio, protests the exclusion of its
proposal from the competition by the Department of the Air Force under request for
proposals (RFP) No. FA8771-17-R-1000 for information technology (IT) services.
Flairsoft argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal under the
technical experience factor.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
On September 28, 2017, the Air Force issued the Small Business Enterprise Application
Solutions (SBEAS) RFP, which was set aside for small businesses, pursuant to the
procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation part 15. Agency Report (AR), Tab 6, RFP
at 162.1 The solicitation contemplated the award of 40 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-
1 Citations to the RFP are to the conformed copy provided by the agency. AR, Tab 6,
RFP.

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