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B-421967.2 Jul 30, 2024 1 (2024-07-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqrf0001 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
been approved for public release.
Matter of:  Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.
File:      B-421967.2
Date:     July 30, 2024
Damien C. Specht, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., Lyle F. Hedgecock, Esq., and Roke
Iko, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester.
Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and Roxanne N. Cassidy, Esq., Crowell
& Moring LLP, for Science Applications International Corporation, the intervenor.
Steven Cullen, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency.
Hannah G. Barnes, Esq., April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of
the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation is denied where the record
shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's
evaluation criteria.
2. Protest challenging the agency's conduct of discussions is denied where the
agency's exchanges in a task order competition were not misleading.
DECISION
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc., (SPA) of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the
issuance of a task order to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of
Reston, Virginia, under task order request for proposals No. HDTRA1-23-R-0007,
issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for nuclear
enterprise advisory and assistance services.' The protester argues that the agency
conducted misleading discussions that led it to submit a proposal the agency rejected
as unacceptable.
We deny the protest.
1 Although the solicitation states that it is a task order request for proposals, the parties
refer to the solicitation as a request for proposals (RFP), and we refer to the solicitation
as an RFP for the sake of simplicity.

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