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B-418796 1 (2020-09-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebrz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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. The entire decision has now 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Sumaria Systems, Inc. File: B-418796 Date: September 9, 2020 James Y. Boland, Esq., and Michael T. Francel, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Col. Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Danielle A. Runyan, Esq., Lawrence M. Anderson, Esq., Josephine Farinelli, Esq., Edward S. Fisher, Esq., and Capt. David J. Ely, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Terms of solicitation, issued pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 16.5, that provide for award of a task order to the highest technically rated offeror with a fair and reasonable price are consistent with applicable law and regulation. 2. Protester's complaints regarding the evaluation criteria to be used to determine the highest technically rated offeror fail to provide a basis for sustaining the protest. DECISION Sumaria Systems, Inc., of Danvers, Massachusetts, protests the provisions of fair opportunity proposal request (FOPR) No. FA8622-20-R-8244, issued by the Department of the Air Force pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5, to provide support services for F-15 aircraft. Sumaria asserts that the solicitation's source selection methodology fails to consider price and that the evaluation criteria are otherwise unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On May 5, 2020, the Air Force issued the FOPR to small businesses holding indefinite- delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts under the General Services Administration's

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