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B-418724 1 (2020-08-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebpm0001 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: Phoenix Management, Inc. File: B-418724 Date: August 14, 2020 Kristin Zachman, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, PC, for the protester. Ian P. Patterson, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., and Shane J. McCall, Esq., Koprince Law LLC, for Data Monitor Systems, Inc., the intervenor. Christopher M. Judge, Esq., and Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Kasia Dourney, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated awardee's proposal as technically acceptable is denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of the offerors' price proposals, and alleging that it was based on an incorrect independent government estimate (IGE), is denied where the IGE was not the sole basis for the agency's evaluation of price, and the agency reasonably concluded that both offerors' prices were reasonable and realistic. DECISION Phoenix Management, Inc., of Austin, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Data Monitor Systems, Inc. (DMS), of Midwest City, Oklahoma, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8101-19-R-A022, issued by the Department of the Air Force for base supply and munitions services at Tinker Air Force Base (AFB) in Oklahoma. The protester asserts the agency unreasonably concluded that DMS's proposal was technically acceptable, and improperly evaluated price proposals, relying on an incorrect independent government estimate (IGE). We deny the protest.

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