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B-416339,B-416339.2 1 (2018-08-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvcj0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Arktis Detection Systems, Inc. File: B-416339; B-416339.2 Date: August 10, 2018 Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Kendra P. Norwood, Esq., and Lindy C. Bathurst, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. Andrew J. Baker, Esq., and Justin V. Briones, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., Amy B. Pereira, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's exclusion of protester's proposal is dismissed, where the record shows that protester abandoned its initial protest allegation, and a similar-- but materially-different--protest ground was untimely filed. 2. Protest that the agency's test evaluations were flawed is denied, where the agency admits the error but the record shows that the protester suffered no prejudice. DECISION Arktis Detection Systems, Inc. (Arktis), of Arlington, Virginia, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range for request for proposals (RFP) No. HSHQDN-1 7- R-0002, which was issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection, for replacement radiation portal monitors to provide passive security at U.S. ports of entry. The protester alleges that, during the testing phase of the evaluation, the agency misevaluated its proposed monitoring system in several of the tests and that, without these errors, it would have been included in the competitive range. We dismiss the protest in part and deny the protest in part. BACKGROUND On January 19, 2017, DHS released the solicitation for replacement radiation portal monitors used to detect radiological and nuclear threats at U.S. sea- and land-based

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