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B-412680,B-412680.2 1 (2016-05-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsfy0001 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 Dec is ion been approved for ublic release. Matter of: NCI Information Systems, Inc. File: B-412680; B-412680.2 Date: May 5, 2016 John E. Jensen, Esq., Selena M. Brady, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Travis L. Mullaney, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Andrew Bramnick, Esq., and Christina M. Austin, Esq., Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest challenging the agency's past performance evaluation is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria. 3. Protest challenging the agency's best-value determination is denied where the record indicates that the agency reasonably found the offerors' proposals to be equal as to all nonprice factors, including past performance, such that the awardee's lower-priced proposal represented the best value to the agency. DECISION NCI Information Systems, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), of Washington, District of Columbia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HQ0034-16-R-0007, issued by the Department of Defense (DOD), Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), for support services for the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program (SMART Program). NCI argues that the agency's evaluation of its proposal and the resulting award decision were improper. We deny the protest.

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