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B-417028.4 1 (2019-09-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzzm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 Decision bee .., p.r.o..v.e.d...f.o.r.p..u.b.I~....r..J e..a.s..e ................................................ Matter of: Semper Valens Solutions, Inc. File: B-417028.4 Date: September 17, 2019 William K. Walker, Esq., Walker Reausaw, for the protester. Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., Ian P. Patterson, Esq., Shane J. McCall, Esq., Nicole D. Pottroff, Esq., and Robert D. Kampen, Esq., Koprince Law LLC, for NavQSys, LLC, the intervenor. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Thomas L. Clark, Esq., Department of the Army, and Kevin R. Harber, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting agency improperly referred awardee to the Small Business Administration (SBA) for consideration under certificate of competency (COC) procedures does not fall within exceptions that allow for review by our Office; protest that the SBA failed to consider vital information bearing on the awardee's responsibility when granting the issuance of a COC is denied where there is no evidence the contracting agency provided incorrect information to, or withheld information from, the SBA. 2. Protest challenging contracting agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the agency reasonably considered offerors' total evaluated costs in accordance with the solicitation; protester's assertion that agency should have considered other costs amounts to a challenge to the terms of the solicitation and is untimely. DECISION Semper Valens Solutions, Inc. (SVS), of Canyon Lake, Texas, protests the award of a contract to NavQSys, LLC, of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W56KGY-17-R-0020, issued by the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, for systems engineering and technical assistance (SETA) support services. SVS argues that the Army improperly found NavQSys to be nonresponsible for lack of a facility security clearance, and improperly referred the awardee to the Small Business Administration (SBA) for a certificate of competency (COC) review. SVS also

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