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B-414360 1 (2017-05-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtnb0001 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 is io n .................................................................................... Matter of: Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. File: B-414360 Date: May 19, 2017 Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Elizabeth A. Ferrell, Esq., George A. Smith II, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., and Emily A. Unnasch, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. Karen M. Reilley, Esq., Warnecke Miller, Esq., and Amy V. Xenofos, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging evaluation of proposal is sustained where evaluation record does not reasonably support the assessment of weaknesses in protester's proposal, and reflects apparent disregard of aspects of protester's proposal and application of unstated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest challenging exclusion of protester's proposal from competitive range is sustained where competitive range determination included higher-scoring higher- priced proposal and relied on comparison of point scores and on contracting officer's unsupported speculation about whether holding discussions with the protester would result in assessment of a significant strength to a revised proposal. DECISION Pinnacle Solutions, Inc., of Huntsville, Alabama, a small business, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNJ16556087R, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for aircraft logistics, integration, configuration management, and engineering services (known as ALICE), at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Ellington Field, in Houston, Texas; the NASA Forward Operating Location, in El Paso, Texas; the Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Virginia; and other locations. RFP at C-24 & F-3. Pinnacle argues that NASA misevaluated its proposal and unreasonably excluded it from the competitive range.

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