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B-418677 1 (2020-07-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebln0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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 been approved for public release. Matter of: SigNet Technologies, Inc. File: B-418677 Date: July 23, 2020 Ira E. Hoffman, Esq., Butzel Long, PC, for the protester. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Josephine Farinelli, Esq., Michael J. Farr, Esq., Laura K. Koepnick, Esq., and Andrew J. Sibley, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Angela H. Moon, Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest asserting that agency was required to seek clarification before rejecting the protester's proposal as unacceptable is denied where the record shows that any exchanges regarding issues in the protester's proposal would have constituted discussions. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's technical proposal is dismissed where the protester abandoned its substantive challenges to the agency's evaluation of its technical proposal. DECISION SigNet Technologies, Inc. (SigNet), of Beltsville, Maryland, protests the award of multiple contracts under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8730-19-R-0005, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the acquisition of physical and electronic security systems. SigNet argues that the agency should have engaged in clarifications regarding its proposal. SigNet further contends that the agency improperly evaluated its technical proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On June 6, 2019, the Air Force issued the RFP under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15, Contracting by Negotiation, for contractors to implement physical and

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