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B-414357 1 (2017-05-22)

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GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                          The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                  a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                          been approved for public release.


Matter of:  LCLC Inc/CfMRF

File:       B-414357

Date:       May 22, 2017

Lisa Marchese, Esq., Jonathan A. DeMella, Esq., and Kate Kennedy, Esq., Davis
Wright Tremaine LLP, for the protester.
Frank S. Murray, Esq., David T. Ralston, Esq., Micah Tal Zomer, Esq., and Alexandra
Kitson, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, for TechWerks, LLC, an intervenor.
Col. C. Taylor Smith, Capt. Ryan P. Payne, Corey Lastinger, Esq., and Alexis J.
Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air Force, on behalf of the Naval Special Warfare
Command, 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

Protest challenging selection of lower-rated, lower-priced proposal is denied where the
source selection authority considered the technical differences between the two
offerors' proposals but determined that the superiority of the higher-rated, higher-priced
proposal was not worth paying the associated price premium.
DECISION

LCLC, Inc., d/b/a Center for Military Relationships and Families (LCLC), of Seattle,
Washington, challenges the award of a contract to TechWerks, LLC, of Arlington
Heights, Illinois, by the Department of the Navy, Naval Special Warfare (NSW)
Command, under solicitation No. H92240-16-T-0084, for a resilience program. The
protester challenges the evaluation of TechWerks's technical proposal and the selection
decision.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The solicitation was issued on August 22, 2016, under the procedures of Federal
Acquisition Regulation (FAR) parts 12 and 13. See Agency Report (AR), Tab 16,
Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Notice. The solicitation, as amended, contemplated the

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