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B-420965 Nov 22, 2022 1 (2022-11-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaonys0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Gateway Ventures, Inc. File: B-420965 Date: November 22, 2022 James Y. Boland, Esq., Allison M. Siegel, Esq.,and Lindsay M. Reed, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Emilia M. Thompson, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Christine Milne, Esq., Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency unreasonably eliminated the protester's proposal from consideration is denied where the record shows that the agency properly determined that the protester's proposal was unacceptable for failing to meet all of the solicitation's pass/fail criteria. DECISION Gateway Ventures, Inc., of Norfolk, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to McLaughlin Research Corp., of Middletown, Rhode Island, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N66604-22-R-3001, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, for engineering services to support the agency's towed hull and sensor system programs. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably eliminated its proposal from consideration. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The facts in this case are straightforward and not in dispute. The RFP contemplates the issuance, on a best-value tradeoff basis, of a cost-reimbursable task order under the Navy's SeaPort Next Generation (SeaPort NxG) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts to perform engineering support services for a 1-year base period and four 1-

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