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B-415917.5,B-415917.6 1 (2018-09-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvff0001 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: Synaptek Corporation, Inc. File: B-415917.5; B-415917.6 Date: September 24, 2018 Jerry A. Miles, Esq., Deale Services, LLC, for the protester. Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., Shane J. McCall, Esq., and Stephan L. Skepnek, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for OSC Edge, the intervenor. Paul C. Scheck, Esq., and David H. Turner, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency failed to consider whether awardee would comply with limitations on subcontracting clause is denied where there is nothing on the face of the awardee's proposal that indicates its intent not to comply. 2. Protest that agency made an unreasonable best-value tradeoff is denied where agency considered that protester's non-price proposal was superior to awardee's non- price proposal, but concluded that protester's proposal was not worth a 40 percent price premium. DECISION Synaptek Corporation, Inc., a small business of Reston, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Open SAN Consulting, LLC dba OSC Edge (OSC), of Atlanta, Georgia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N001 89-17-R-Z023, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command, for information technology support services. Synaptek asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated OSC's intention to comply with the RFP's limitation on subcontracting and performed an unreasonable best-value tradeoff. We deny the protest.

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