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B-418235,B-418235.2 1 (2020-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaov0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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 redacted version has 1been approved for public release. Matter of: BEAT, LLC File: B-418235; B-418235.2 Date: January 30, 2020 Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., and Andrew C. Crawford, Esq., Brown Rudnick, LLP, for the protester. Damien C. Specht, Esq., R. Locke Bell, Esq., and Victoria D. Angle, Esq., Morrison & Foerster, LLP, for Sentar, LLC, the intervenor. Scott J. McGuigan, Esq., and David R. White, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Todd C. Culliton, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated protester's proposal is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that the agency should have referred a nonresponsibility determination to the Small Business Administration under certificate of competency procedures is denied where the agency did not effectively evaluate the protester as nonresponsible but rather simply identified aspects of the protester's proposal as weak under the evaluation criteria. 3. Protest challenging the cost realism evaluation is denied where the record shows that agency reasonably determined that protester's estimated costs were unrealistically low. DECISION Business Enabled Acquisition & Technology, LLC (BEAT), of San Antonio, Texas, protests the award of a task order contract to Sentar, LLC, of Baltimore, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N6523619R3507, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC), for cybersecurity risk management operations support. BEAT alleges that the Navy unreasonably evaluated its proposal, failed to refer a nonresponsibility determination to the Small Business

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