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B-410035,B-410035.2 1 (2014-10-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqqw0001 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: NJVC, LLC File: B-410035; B-410035.2 Date: October 15, 2014 Michael R. Charness, Esq., Jenny J. Yang, Esq., Elizabeth K. McIntyre, Esq., and Melissa V. Hastings, Esq., Vinson & Elkins LLP, for the protester. Craig A. Holman, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., Lauren J. Schlanger, Esq., and Dana E. Peterson, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., the intervenor. Howard Phifer, Esq., National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging various aspects of the agency's evaluation of proposals and best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the record shows that the evaluation and trade-off decision were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's terms. DECISION NJVC, LLC, of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. HM01 76-13-R-0001 for information technology enterprise managed services (ITEMS) transport services (TS). NJVC challenges various aspects of the agency's evaluation of proposals. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on September 11, 2013, sought proposals to provide various services in support of the agency's ITEMS-TS program. RFP, Cover Letter. The RFP contemplated award of a contract consisting of one base year and four option years, with each year containing various fixed-price and cost-reimbursement contract line item numbers (CLINs). Id. at 2-21. Award was to be made on a best- value basis, with a tradeoff between price/cost and the following non-price factors:

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