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B-408046,B-408046.2 1 (2013-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpof0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ,Acccntab; ty* of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: NOVA Corporation File: B-408046; B-408046.2 Date: June 4, 2013 William L. Walsh Jr., Esq., James Y. Boland, Esq., Keir X. Bancroft, Esq., and Christina K. Kube, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. David P. Metzger, Esq., and Caitlin K. Cloonan, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for Digital Management, Inc., the intervenor. LaVette Lyas-Webster, Esq., Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where the record does not demonstrate whether the source selection authority substantively considered the evaluated differences between the awardee's and protester's past performance records. Although the agency identified clear differences between the protester's higher-rated past performance record and the awardee's lower-rated record, the source selection authority did not document her basis for concluding that the differences were not significant and that selection of the protester's higher-priced proposal was not justified. DECISION NOVA Corporation, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, protests the award of a task order to Digital Management, Inc., (DMI) of Bethesda, Maryland, by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. EG0330.00 for operations and information technology support services for the Theater Enterprise Computing Center--Central Region in Juffair, Bahrain. NOVA challenges the agency's evaluation of the offerors' proposals and award decision. We sustain the protest. DISA issued the RFP on April 26, 2012, to companies holding 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (STARS) II, Constellation I,

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