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B-418382 1 (2020-03-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeayq0001 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 version has been 1approved for public release. Matter of: Sayres & Associates Corporation File: B-418382 Date: March 31, 2020 Andrew P. Hallowell, Esq., Pargament & Hallowell, PLLC, for the protester. Maria Panichelli, Esq., and Michael Richard, Esq., Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, for Reliability and Performance Technologies, the intervenor. Ryan Banach, Esq., and Lana K. Obert, Esq., Department of the Navy, 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 challenging agency past performance evaluation is denied when an evaluation error did not competitively prejudice the protester, and the evaluation was otherwise reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging agency best-value tradeoff is denied when the best-value tradeoff was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Sayres & Associates Corporation, a small business of Washington, D.C., protests the issuance of a task order to Reliability and Performance Technologies, LLC (RPT), by the Department of the Navy under request for proposals (RFP) No. N001 64-18-R-3006 for program management support services related to the DDG-1000 Destroyer program. The protester alleges that the agency erred in its evaluation of the offerors' past performance, and in its best-value tradeoff. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On April 18, 2018, the agency issued the RFP as a small business set-aside, seeking proposals from firms holding Department of the Navy, Seaport Enhanced multiple- award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts. Agency Report (AR) at 2; Protest at 4. The RFP contemplated the award of a single cost-plus-fixed-fee task

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