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B-415343,B-415343.2 1 (2017-12-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduik0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: OST, Inc. File: B-415343; B-415343.2 Date: December 18, 2017 Thomas A. Coulter, Esq., and Nicole Hardin Brakstad, Esq., LeClair Ryan, for the protester. Daniel R. Forman, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., and Hart W. Wood, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Attain, LLC, the intervenor. Timothy B. O'Keefe, Esq., John L. Bowles, Esq., and Nancy Toppetta, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Agency's best-value tradeoff determination is unobjectionable where the record reflects an adequately-documented source selection decision that justified award to a higher-rated, higher-priced offeror. DECISION OST, Inc., of Washington, D.C., protests the issuance of a task order to Attain, LLC, of McLean, VA, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-SOL-001 0408, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), for information technology support services (ITSS).1 OST challenges the evaluation of its proposal and the best-value determination. 1 According to OST, the current RFP is a follow-on to a contract awarded to Alliant Enterprise JV, of which OST was a member and the designated task order management lead. Protest at 6.

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