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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
a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
Decision .been approved for public release.
Matter of: Root9B, LLC
File: B-417801 ; B-417801.2
Date: November 4, 2019
Gregory S. Jacobs, Esq., and Erin L. Felix, Esq., Polsinelli P.C., for the protester.
Laura A. Wallace, Esq., and Danielle M. Prongay, Esq., National Security Agency, for
the agency.
Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest that agency misevaluated protester's proposal is denied where evaluation
was reasonable and consistent with solicitation's evaluation criteria and reasonably
assessed a deficiency in protester's proposal, making it unacceptable.
2. Protester is an interested party to challenge the agency's price reasonableness
determination, despite its lower-priced proposal being unacceptable, because the
awardee was the only other offeror and, if the protest were sustained, the agency could
find the awardee ineligible for award and would have to reopen the competition.
3. Protest that agency determination of price reasonableness was unreasonable is
denied where the agency compared the awardee's price to an independent government
estimate that was based on agency's historical costs for requirement, recent
requirements by other agencies, and a reasonable estimate regarding increased future
usage.
DECISION
Root9B, LLC, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a small business, protests the award of a
contract to Chiron Technology Services, Inc., of Columbia, Maryland, under request for
proposals (RFP) No. H98230-19-R-0081 (known as FLYREEL), issued by the National
Security Agency (NSA), for training services at locations [DELETED]. Root9B argues
that NSA misevaluated its proposal and awarded the contract at an unreasonable price.
We deny the protest.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaeazn0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)