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B-410655 1 (2014-12-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqtx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Costello, Hadley and Associates, LLC File: B-410655 Date: December 10, 2014 Francis Costello Jr., Costello, Hadley and Associates, LLC, for the protester. Lt. Col. James H. Kennedy III, and Maj. Michael G. King, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency should have found the awardee's quotation technically unacceptable is denied where the agency's interpretation of the solicitation's terms was reasonable, and any ambiguity regarding the terms was patent based on the face of the solicitation. DECISION Costello, Hadley, and Associates, LLC, of Niceville, Florida, a service-disabled, veteran-owned, small business, protests the award of a contract to Jasper Sawyer Company, LLC, of Orlando, Florida, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA9301-14-R-0023, issued by the Department of the Air Force, for chapel ministry support services. Costello challenges the agency's evaluation of Jasper's quotation because, the protester contends, the awardee's quotation could not have met the technical requirements of the performance work statement, and therefore should have been rejected as technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On September 12, 2014, the Air Force issued the RFQ as a total small business set-aside, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 12.6, Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items. RFQ at 1. The solicitation sought Protestant and Catholic religious education and youth services on Edwards Air Force Base in California. Id. The RFQ anticipated the

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