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B-418876.2 1 (2020-11-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecbz0001 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 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Trusted Mission Solutions, Inc. File: B-418876.2 Date: November 13, 2020 J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, for the protester. Damien C. Specht, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and Lyle F. Hedgecock, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for Octo Metric LLC, the intervenor. Mary C. Schaffer, Esq., and Ashlee N. Adams, Esq., Department of the Treasury, for the agency. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's cost realism evaluation is denied where agency appropriately considered the protester's proposed technical approach and did not rely on a mechanical comparison of the protester's costs to the agency's internal cost estimates. DECISION Trusted Mission Solutions, Inc. (TMS), a small business located in Vienna, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Octo Metric LLC, a small business located in Atlanta, Georgia, by the Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 20341420R00001 for development operations (DevOps) and software development services. The protester contends that the agency conducted an unreasonable cost evaluation of its proposal and unreasonably reduced the competition to only one offeror, Octo Metric. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On December 19, 2019, the Bureau provided a notice to holders of the National Institutes of Health CIO-SP3 governmentwide acquisition contract of a requirement to provide DevOps and software development services for the Department of the

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