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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                           of the United States




Decision


Matter of:  Dfuse Technologies, Inc.

File:       B-415716.19

Date:       March 4, 2019

Sandeep Suri, Dfuse Technologies, Inc., for the protester.
Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Lieutenant Colonel Kevin P. Stiens, and Rachell J. Reilly,
Esq., Department of the Air Force, 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

Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of protester's technical proposal is denied
where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the
solicitation.
DECISION

Dfuse Technologies, Ltd., a small business of Ashburn, Virginia, protests the exclusion
of its proposal from the competition by the Department of the Air Force under request
for proposals (RFP) No. FA8771-17-R-1 000 for information technology (IT) services.'

We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

BACKGROUND

On September 28, 2017, the Air Force issued the Small Business Enterprise Application
Solutions (SBEAS) RFP, which was set aside for small businesses, pursuant to the
procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15. Agency Report (AR),
Tab 5, RFP at 162.2 The solicitation contemplated the award of 40 indefinite-delivery,

1 Our Office did not issue a protective order in connection with this protest. Accordingly,
our discussion of some aspects of the evaluation is necessarily general in nature.
2 Citations to the RFP are to the conformed copy provided by the agency. AR, Tab 4,
RFP.

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