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B-412442,B-412442.2 1 (2016-02-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadryc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I t GAO ! Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office VVUa II VJL Comptroller General of the United States S . , ,------- ------- ------- ------- --------------------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- --.. ... ... .. .... . .... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: American Technology Solutions International Corporation File: Date: B-412442; B-412442.2 February 12, 2016 Barbara S. Kinosky, Esq., Wojciech Z. Kornacki, Esq., and Marina B. Blickley, Esq., Centre Law and Consulting, LLC, for the protester. James W. Norment, Esq., Ward and Smith, P.A., for Epsilon, Inc., an intervenor. Lisa L. Baker, Esq., United States Marine Corps, and Tricia A. Nicewicz, Esq., Department of the Navy, 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 1. Protest challenging agency's assessment of a weakness to protester's proposal under staffing approach factor is denied where record reflects assessment was reasonable and consistent with solicitation's evaluation criteria. 2. Protest challenging agency's selection of higher-technically-rated, higher-priced proposal for award under solicitation that established price as equally important to non-price factors is denied where solicitation permitted tradeoffs and where agency reasonably determined that technical superiority of awardee's proposal warranted the associated price premium. DECISION American Technology Solutions International Corporation (ATSI), of Fredericksburg, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Epsilon, Inc., of Weaverville, North Carolina, by the United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps Systems Command, under task order request for proposals (TORFP) No. N00024-15-R-3296 for information technology (IT) services to support the agency's training and education command. ATSI alleges that the agency's evaluation of its proposal was unreasonable and that its best-value tradeoff decision was flawed. We deny the protest.1 1 As the value of this task order is in excess of $10 million, this procurement is within our jurisdiction to hear protests related to the issuance of task orders under (continued...)

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