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B-417816 1 (2019-11-05)

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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            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:  Cyberdata Technologies, LLC

File:        B-417816

Date:        November 5, 2019

Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., and Andr6s M. Vera, Esq., Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law, for
the protester.
John L. Guinan, Jr., Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency.
Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest that the agency improperly excluded the protester from the competitive range is
denied where the record shows that the agency's decision is reasonable and in
accordance with the stated evaluation criteria.
DECISION

CyberData Technologies, LLC, of Herndon, Virginia, protests its exclusion from the
competitive range by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. ST-1 330-18-RP-0041 for
professional and engineering services in support of the National Weather Service
(NWS). CyberData challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal under various
price and non-price factors.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFP, issued on August 6, 2018, sought proposals for a multiple-award, indefinite-
delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) professional and technical services contract to
support the agency's weather domain.1 RFP at 7. The resulting contracts were to


1 The solicitation was amended three times. Unless otherwise noted, citations are to
the conformed solicitation provided at Tab 6 to the agency report (AR).

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