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B-416598.3,B-416598.4 1 (2019-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeakm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAiOU.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 been approved for public release. Matter of: Strategic Management Solutions, LLC File: B-416598.3; B-416598.4 Date: December 17, 2019 Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Tammy Hopkins, Esq., and Andrew C. Crawford, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for the protester. J. Hunter Bennett, Esq., Jason A. Carey, Esq., and Andrew R. Guy, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for Enterprise Technical Assistance Services, Inc., the intervenor. Jared D. Minsk, Esq., Harry J. Shearer, Esq., and Rachna M. Talwar, Esq., Department of Energy, 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 1. Protest that agency failed to give adequate consideration to awardee's potential organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated whether the awardee had an impaired objectivity OCI and where the protester's assertions fail to present hard facts indicating the existence of a conflict. 2. Protest alleging the agency failed to reasonably evaluate the performance risk associated with awardee's price is denied where the protester's allegation is based on an unreasonable interpretation of the solicitation. 3. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of awardee's past performance is dismissed where protester failed to timely challenge a patent ambiguity in the solicitation. 4. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of offerors' key personnel is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria, and not disparate. DECISION Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI), of Albuquerque, New Mexico, protests the award of a contract to Enterprise Technical Assistance Services, Inc. (E-TAS), of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-SOL-001 0125,

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