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B-418587,B-418587.2 1 (2020-06-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebkm0001 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Dawson Solutions, LLC File: B-418587; B-418587.2 Date: June 19, 2020 Kristin Zachman, Esq., and Johnathan Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, PC, for the protester. Damien C. Specht, Esq., James Tucker, Esq., and Victoria D. Angle, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for Kupono Government Services, LLC, the intervenor. Robert B. Neill, Esq., Susan Kim, Esq., Scott N. Flesch, Esq., and Andrew J. Smith, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging a contracting agency's evaluation of the protester's proposed key personnel is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation criteria. 2. Protest alleging that the agency evaluated the protester's and the awardee's proposals on an unequal basis is denied where the protester has not shown that the differences in ratings did not stem from differences in the proposals. 3. Protest alleging that the agency requested clarifications on an unequal basis is denied where the record shows that the agency sought only clarifications from the awardee, in contrast to any exchanges the protester argues the agency was required to conduct regarding deficiencies in protester's proposal, which would have constituted discussions. 4. Protester is not an interested party to challenge other aspects of the evaluation where its proposal was reasonably evaluated as technically unacceptable. DECISION Dawson Solutions, LLC (Dawson), a small business of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the award of a contract to Kupono Government Services, LLC (Kupono), a small business of Orlando, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91249-20-R-0003, issued

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