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GAO 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
Decision                                   a GAO Protective Order. This version has been
                                           approved for public release.


Matter of:   By Light Professional IT Services, LLC

File:        B-417191.3

Date:     December 4, 2019

Damien  C. Specht, Esq., James Tucker, Esq., and Alissandra Young, Esq., Morrison &
Foerster LLP, for the protester.
Andrew  Shipley, Esq., Chanda L. Brown, Esq., and Philip Beshara, Esq., Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, for NES Associates, LLC, the intervenor.
Michelle L. Sabin, Esq., Nati Silva, Esq., and Vera A. Strebel, Esq., Defense Information
Systems  Agency, for the agency.
Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest alleging that agency failed to acknowledge numerous strengths in protester's
proposal is denied when the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with
the solicitation requirements.

2. Protest alleging that a best-value tradeoff was inadequately documented is denied
when  the record reflects that the agency considered the underlying features of the
proposals and did not mechanically compare adjectival ratings.
DECISION

By Light Professional IT Services, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, protests the issuance of a
task order to NES Associates, LLC, by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
under request for proposals (RFP) No. GSMETI00035.00, issued under DISA's Global
Information Grid Services Management Engineering, Transition, and Architecture
multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to acquire
consolidated implementation support services for the Department of Defense
information network. The protester alleges that the agency failed to recognize
numerous  strengths in the protester's proposal, and that the agency failed to adequately
document  its best-value tradeoff decision.

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