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B-410404,B-410404.2 1 (2014-12-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqvf0001 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: Hickory Ground Solutions, LLC File: B-410404; B-410404.2 Date: December 19, 2014 James K. Kearney, Esq., Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, for the protester. Michelle F. Kantor, Esq., McDonald Hopkins LLC, for the intervenor. Sarah L. Carroll, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly evaluated the protester's technical proposal is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that agency treated offerors unequally is denied where differences in evaluation were reasonable and supported by the record. 3. Protest challenging agency's price realism analysis of awardee's proposal is denied where the protester has not demonstrated that the agency's analysis was unreasonable. DECISION Hickory Ground Solutions, LLC (Hickory), of Heathsville, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to LinTech Global Inc. (LinTech), of Farmington Hills, Michigan, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HC1 028-14-R-0024, issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for ongoing maintenance and operational support to the Office of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) for its Business Intelligence and Procurement Toolkit (Toolkit) capabilities. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of the protester's technical proposal and the agency's price realism analysis, and alleges that its proposal and the awardee's proposal were evaluated unequally. We deny the protest.

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