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B-419283 1 (2021-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecid0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 'D U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE G A O( A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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: Zolon PCS, LLC File: B-419283 Date: January 14, 2021 William T. Welch, Esq., and J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, for the protester. Aaron S. Ralph, Esq., John E. Jensen, Esq., and Robert C. Starling, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for S2 Analytical Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. Daniel T. Lamb, Esq., and Major Jason A. Quinn, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Sarah T. Zaffina, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's quotation as unacceptable and ineligible for award is denied where the quotation did not show that the candidate for one of the key personnel positions had the specific experience the solicitation identified as required experience for the position, and the resulting evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 2. Protester's challenges to other aspects of the evaluation are dismissed where the protester would not be competitively prejudiced by any misevaluation of its own quotation, and was not an interested party to challenge the evaluation of the successful vendor's quotation because another acceptable vendor was next in line for award. DECISION Zolon PCS, LLC (Zolon), an 8(a) small business located in Ashburn, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to S2 Analytical Solutions, LLC (S2), a veteran-owned small business of Herndon, Virginia, under task order quotation request (TOQR) No. 0005, issued by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for systems engineering and integration (SE&I) support services.1 The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of quotations and source selection decision were unreasonable. 1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a), authorizes the Small Business Administration to enter into contracts with government agencies and to

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