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B-413238,B-413238.2 1 (2016-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsny0001 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: Mare Solutions, Inc. File: B-413238; B-413238.2 Date: September 14, 2016 Raymond P. Parker, Esq., and Steven J. Pieklik, Esq., Williams Coulson LLC, and James R. Mall, Esq., Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP, for the protester. Neil S. Deol, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Young S. Lee, Esq., Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging an evaluation of past performance and technical proposals, as well as the agency's best-value decision, is denied where record shows that the agency's evaluation and award decision were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest alleging that the awardee cannot meet the solicitation's subcontracting limitation clause is denied where the protester identifies nothing on the face of the awardee's proposal that indicates an intention not to comply with the limitation. DECISION Mare Solutions, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to SAW Contracting, Inc., a SDVOSB of Virginia Beach, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA244-15-R-1 582, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for boiler plant replacement services. Mare contends that the VA's evaluation of its proposal, the evaluation of the awardee's proposal, and the agency's award decision were unreasonable. Mare also argues that the awardee's proposal failed to provide the information necessary to determine whether SAW would comply with the subcontracting limitation in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause 52.219-14. We deny the protest.

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