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B-421225 Dec 22, 2022 1 (2022-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaoocl0001 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. The entire decision has now been approved for public release. Matter of: nou Systems, Inc. File: B-421225 Date: December 22, 2022 David Z. Bodenheimer, Esq., and Madison Plummer, Esq., Nichols Liu LLP, for the protester. Major James S. Kim, and Michael McDermott, Esq., Missile Defense Agency, for the agency. Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency's technical evaluation was unreasonable because the agency applied an unstated evaluation criterion, failed to recognize strengths in the protester's proposal, and improperly weighted the technical subfactors is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging the agency's cost realism analysis is denied where the agency performed a comprehensive analysis of all major cost elements and reasonably determined that proposed costs were consistent with each offeror's technical approach and were realistic for the work to be performed. 3. Protest that the agency's source selection decision was unreasonable because it was premised on a flawed evaluation and failed to consider proposed cost savings is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria. DECISION nou Systems, Inc. a small business of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to Corvid Technologies, LLC (Corvid), a small business of Mooresville, North Carolina, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HQ0855-21-R-0004, issued by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for specialized support services for test instrumentation. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals under the technical and cost factors, and the best- value tradeoff decision.

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