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B-411056 1 (2015-05-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrcx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approvedfor public release. Matter of: Unified Business Technologies, Inc. File: B-411056 Date: May 1, 2015 Steven J. Koprince, Esq., and Amanda M. Wilwert, Esq., Koprince Law LLC, for the protester. Debra J. Talley, Esq., and Kandis C. Gaines, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging agency misevaluated protester's technical proposal is denied where record reflects evaluation was reasonable and consistent with terms of solicitation. DECISION Unified Business Technologies, Inc. (UBT), of Troy, Michigan, protests the decision of the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, to eliminate its proposal from the competition under request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV- 14-R-0030 for knowledge-based services. UBT alleges the agency's evaluation of its proposal was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on August 1, 2014, contemplated the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts with ordering periods of five years. RFP §§ A. 1, A.6. The scope of work was described as knowledge-based services, to include program or project management and administration, and the furnishing of professional advice or assistance, engineering and technical services, logistics management services, management support services, and professional services. Id § A.3. The awards were to be made based on a best-value tradeoff considering the following four factors, listed in descending order of importance:

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