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B-418397,B-418397.2 1 (2020-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebbf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 redacted version has 1been approved for public release. Matter of: ProSecure LLC File: B-418397; B-418397.2 Date: April 15, 2020 Adam K. Lasky, Esq., Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker, LLP, for the protester. Denise A. McLane, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Kasia Dourney, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging various aspects of the evaluation of offerors' past performance proposals is denied where, despite the manner in which the agency compared the magnitude of past performance references, there is no basis to conclude that the agency's evaluation was unreasonable or that the protester was prejudiced by the evaluation. DECISION ProSecure LLC, a small business' of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to CDA, Inc., doing business as MaxSent (MaxSent), a small business of Annapolis, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 70RFPW19RWA000003, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Protective Service (FPS), for armed protective security officer services throughout Alaska. ProSecure challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals under the past performance and management approach factors, and alleges that the agency evaluated offers disparately. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND 1 ProSecure is a small business mentor-prot6g6 joint venture between Meritus Solutions Group, LLC (Meritus, the small business), and its Small Business Administration- approved mentor, American Eagle Protection Services Corporation (AEPS). Protest, att. 1, Decl. of Chief Executive Officer of Meritus 3; see 13 C.F.R. §§ 125.9(a), (b), (d). The ProSecure joint venture was approved by the Small Business Administration (SBA) on May 1, 2019. Agency Report (AR), exh. 5, ProSecure's Technical Proposal at xiii.

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