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B-415243,B-415243.2 1 (2017-12-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduju0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Democracy International, Inc. File: B-415243; B-415243.2 Date: December 13, 2017 John Knab, Esq., and Daniel A. Petalas, Esq., Garvey Schubert Barer, for the protester. Robert Nichols, Esq., Natalie Thingelstad, Esq., and James Chow, Esq., Nichols Liu LLP, for Management Sciences, Inc., the intervenor. R. Ren6 Dupuy, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's selection of a lower-rated, lower-priced proposal for award is unobjectionable where the agency's tradeoff decision was reasonable, and where the agency adequately documented its tradeoff rationale. 2. Protester's challenges regarding ambiguities in the solicitation are untimely because any ambiguities were patent and were not challenged prior to the due date for receipt of proposals. DECISION Democracy International, Inc. (DI), of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Management Systems International, Inc. (MSI), by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL- 306-16-000037 for the Afghanistan's Measure for Accountability and Transparency (AMANAT) program. DI argues that the best-value tradeoff and source selection decision were unreasonable. The protester further alleges that the solicitation contained a latent defect that prevented offerors from competing on an equal basis. We deny in part and dismiss in part the protest.

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