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B-408941 1 (2013-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpzr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability 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: Superlative Technologies, Inc. File: B-408941 Date: December 30, 2013 Kenneth D. Brody, Esq., and Thomas K. David, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP, for the protester. Lee Dougherty, Esq., and Katherine A. Straw, Esq., Fluet Huber & Hoang PLLC, for Phacil, Inc., the intervenor. Major Donald Bugg, and Damon B. Richardson, Esq., Department of the Air Force, and Kenneth Roth, Esq., and Robert Bowers, Esq., United States Transportation Command, 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 1. Protest arguing that the awardee's quotation misrepresented the awardee's relationship with the protester's employee is denied where the record does not clearly reflect a misrepresentation, and the agency's evaluation in any event did not rely on the alleged misrepresentation. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's technical quotation and past performance is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation's evaluation criteria, which did not require vendors to demonstrate specialized experience, as alleged by the protester. DECISION Superlative Technologies, Inc. (SuprTEK), of Ashburn, Virginia, protests the award of a task order to Phacil, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, issued by the United States Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HTC711-13-Q-D008 for support services and related project management for the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command's electronic transportation acquisition (ETA) authentication system. The protester, who is the incumbent contractor for this requirement, alleges that the agency relied on a material misrepresentation in evaluating the acceptability of the awardee's quotation, and

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