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B-416680 1 (2018-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvhj0001 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 Decisionbeen for release. been approved frpublic release. -------------------- Matter of: Valbin Corporation File: B-416680 Date: November 9, 2018 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman P.A., for the protester. Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., and George E. Stewart, Esq., Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for Leidos, Inc., the intervenor. Gregory A. Moritz, Esq., Major Christopher M. Kovach, Max D. Houtz, Esq., and Jessica A. Easton, Esq., Defense Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of protester's technical proposal is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria, adequately documented, and without prejudice to the protester as a result of the alleged errors. DECISION Valbin Corporation, of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Leidos, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HHM402-18-R-0004, issued by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for the agency's National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) Linguist Intelligence Operations NMEC (LION) services. Valbin alleges that the agency's evaluation of its technical proposal was improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The DIA provides military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers, and force planners in the Department of Defense (DOD) and the intelligence community in support of United States military planning and operations.1 The role of the DIA NMEC is 1 About DIA, http://www.dia.mil/About (last visited Nov. 8, 2018).

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