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B-421180,B-421180.2,B-421180.3 Jan 11, 2023 1 (2023-01-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaoodm0001 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: Jamaica Bearings Group
File:     B-421180; B-421180.2; B-421180.3
Date:     January 11, 2023
Casey J. McKinnon, Esq., Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, for the
protester.
Gary J. Campbell, Esq., Miles A. McCann, Esq., Joshuah R. Turner, Esq., and Jedidiah
Blake, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for Noble Supply and Logistics, LLC, the intervenor.
Elan D. Taylor, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency.
David A. Edelstein, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest of agency's technical, past performance, and price evaluation is denied
where record demonstrates that agency reasonably evaluated proposals in accordance
with solicitation criteria.
2. Protest of agency's best-value tradeoff decisions is dismissed where the agency took
corrective action for some of the contract awards, rendering those decisions academic,
and for the remaining contract awards the agency awarded contracts to offerors that
were lower-priced than, and equally-rated to, the protester.
DECISION
Jamaica Bearings Group, a small business of New Hyde Park, New York, protests the
award of contracts to three firms1 under request for proposals (RFP)
No. SPE4A2-21-R-0002, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics
Agency (DLA), for material support. The protester alleges that the agency improperly
evaluated proposals and made an unreasonable best-value determination.
1 The protested awardees are American Bearing and Components LLC, a small
business of Hansville, Washington; Noble Supply and Logistics, LLC, a small business
of Rockland, Massachusetts; and Mechatronics, Inc., a small business of Preston,
Washington.

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