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G               A   O                                                  Comptroller General
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  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


           Matter of: WingGate Travel, Inc.

           File:       B-405007.14

           Date:       April 12, 2013

           Josephine Ursini, Esq., for the protester.
           Hattie Russell DuBois, Esq., Department of Defense, Defense Human Resources
           Activity, for the agency.
           Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest that agency's best value tradeoff decision was unreasonable is denied
           where the source selection authority reasonably determined that the protester's
           higher priced and higher technically rated proposal was not worth the price
           premium, notwithstanding that technical was significantly more important than price
           under the solicitation.
           DECISION

           WingGate Travel, Inc., of Overland Park, Kansas, protests the Department of
           Defense (DOD), Defense Human Resource Activity's award of a contract to Semont
           Travel, doing business as Travco, of Great Falls, Montana, under request for
           proposals (RFP) No. H98210-10-R-0006, for travel management services to support
           the commercial travel office. The protester challenges the agency's best value
           tradeoff decision.

           We deny the protest.

           BACKGROUND

           The RFP, a small business set-aside, contemplated the award of up to
           six indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery, fixed-price contracts to provide travel
           management services to support official travel activities of authorized DOD travelers
           for six separate travel areas (one award per travel area) within the continental
           United States. WingGate's protest concerns the competition for commercial travel
           office services for Travel Area 2, with locations throughout the country.

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