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B-414766,B-414766.2 1 (2017-09-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtvx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: CR/ZWS LLC File: B-414766; B-414766.2 Date: September 13, 2017 Megan C. Connor, Esq., Ambika J. Biggs, Esq., Julia Di Vito, Esq., and Samuel S. Finnerty, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Christopher Lee, for PBP Management Group, Inc., the intervenor. Captain Ryan P. Payne, and Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the awardee's proposal should have been rejected as technically unacceptable is sustained where the record shows that the awardee's proposal failed to comply with a material requirement of the solicitation. 2. Protest alleging that the awardee's proposal violated the solicitation's subcontracting limitation clause is denied where the awardee's proposal did not take exception to the limitation. 3. Protest alleging that the agency, in conducting its tradeoff analysis, failed to consider discriminators in the offerors' technical proposals is denied where the solicitation stated that proposals would be evaluated on a pass/fail basis. 4. Protest alleging that the agency, in conducting its tradeoff analysis, relied upon an arbitrarily determined, maximum acceptable price premium is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency's maximum acceptable price premium was reasonably based upon the relative merits of the offerors' proposals. DECISION CR/ZWS LLC, an 8(a) small business concern located in Merced, California, protests the award of a contract to PBP Management Group, LLC (PBP Management), an 8(a) small business concern located in Wichita, Kansas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4621-17-R-0002, issued by the Department of the Air Force for

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