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B-411940,B-411940.2 1 (2015-11-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrri0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * 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 - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: STEM International, Inc. File: B-411940; B-411940.2 Date: November 19, 2015 Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., and Gregory P. Hallmark, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Theodore P. Watson, Esq., and Nicole L. Carter, Esq., Watson & Associates, LLC, for TET Consulting Business Management Services, an intervenor. Joseph H. Doyle, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of an agency's technical evaluation and source selection decision is denied where the evaluation and award were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that agency failed to perform a proper best-value cost/technical tradeoff is denied where the tradeoff is adequately documented and the decision was consistent with the solicitation and supported by the underlying evaluation. DECISION STEM International, Inc., of Belcamp, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to TET Consulting & Business Management Services, of Jacksonville, Alabama, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSFE20-15-R-0021, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for training operations and support services to the FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness/ Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, and Radiological Training Facility located in Anniston, Alabama. The protester raises numerous challenges to the agency's evaluation under the technical and cost factors, and the cost/technical tradeoff decision. We deny the protest.

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