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B-412520 1 (2016-03-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrzu0001 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 Decision Matter of: Data Matrix Solutions, Inc. File: B-412520 Date: March 14, 2016 Mario Gonzales for the protester. Wade L. Brown, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 challenging an agency's evaluation of a protester's proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the proposal failed to comply with mandatory requirements for key personnel. 2. Protest that an agency improperly failed to conduct discussions is denied where award without discussions was contemplated by the solicitation and at least one technically acceptable proposal was received. 3. Protest alleging bias on the part of an agency evaluator is denied where protester does not support its allegations with convincing proof, and the record does not otherwise reflect bias. DECISION Data Matrix Solutions, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Survice Engineering Company, of Dumfries, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 1 QX-1 5-R-0004, issued by the Department of the Army for professional scientific, engineering and technical assistance support to various Army research laboratories throughout the United States. Data Matrix alleges that the agency improperly found its proposal unacceptable and ineligible for award, based on deficiencies identified under one technical subfactor; that the agency improperly failed to conduct discussions with Data Matrix; and that the agency's evaluation was tainted by bias. We deny the protest.

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