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B-408661.3,B-408661.4,B-408661.5 1 (2014-03-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqfj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability OfficeDOUETFRPBIRLAS Washigton DC 0548DOCUMENT 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: Hallmark Capital Group, LLC File: B-408661.3; B-408661.4; B-408661.5 Date: March 31, 2014 Bryant S. Banes, Esq., Sean D. Forbes, Esq., and Stormy N. Hendershott, Esq., Neel, Hooper & Banes, P.C., for the protester. Kenneth D. Bynum, Esq., Bynum & Jenkins, for Davis-Paige Management Systems, LLC, an intervenor. Capt. Anthony F. Schiavetti, Department of the Army, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest arguing that the awardee's technical proposal should have been rejected as unacceptable because it proposed staffing below the estimates set forth in the solicitation is denied where the solicitation did not state that the estimates were mandatory minimums. 2. Protest alleging that the agency evaluated the offerors' technical proposals in an unequal manner is denied where the agency had a reasonable basis for assigning strengths to the awardee's proposal but not the protester's proposal. 3. Protest alleging that the agency unreasonably assigned the awardee's proposal multiple, duplicative strengths for the same aspect of its proposal is denied where the strengths related to different parts of the awardee's proposal. 4. Protest alleging that the agency's award was tainted due to bias and bad faith is denied where the protester's allegations are based on unsupported inferences or speculation regarding the actions of agency officials. DECISION Hallmark Capital Group, LLC, of Houston, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Davis-Paige Management Systems (DPMS), LLC, of Annandale, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 1 RZ-1 2-R-0001, issued by the Department of the Army for logistical support services at Fort Carson, Colorado. The protester

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