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B-412395.2 1 (2016-03-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsbd0001 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 - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Spectrum Comm, Inc. File: B-412395.2 Date: March 4, 2016 David M. Nadler, Esq., David Y. Yang, Esq., and Philip E. Beshara, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester. Robert J. Symon, Esq., Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Elizabeth A. Ferrell, Esq., and Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for Jacobs Technology Inc., an intervenor. Maj. George M. Ebert, and Erika L. Whelan-Retta, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging selection of lower-rated, lower-priced quotation is denied where the agency's source selection authority considered the technical differences between the two vendors' quotations but determined that the superiority of the higher-rated, higher-priced quotation was not worth paying the associated price premium. 2. Protest arguing that the selection official raised the awardee's past performance rating during corrective action without explanation or support in the record is denied where the record shows that the selection official's rating was reasonable. DECISION Spectrum Comm, Inc. (Spectrum) of Newport News, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 8 to Jacobs Technology, Inc. (Jacobs) of Lincoln, Massachusetts, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 964303, issued by the Department of the Air Force for product support services for the Air Force Wideband Enterprise Terminals (AFWET) program office. The protester challenges several aspects of the selection decision. We deny the protest.

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