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B-419349,B-419349.2,B-419349.3 1 (2021-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeckn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 Decision 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: Stargates, Inc. File: B-419349; B-419349.2; B-419349.3 Date: January 22, 2021 Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Daniel H. Ramish, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Toya Davis, Esq., and Timothy J. Stecker, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Heather Weiner, 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 proposals is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest that the awardee engaged in an improper bait and switch is denied where the record contains no evidence that the awardee did not intend to staff the task order with the proposed key personnel. DECISION Stargates, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, a small business, protests the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command's issuance of a SeaPort Next Generation task order to KMS Solutions, LLC, of Middletown, Rhode Island, also a small business, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. N0016420R3003, for non-personal, system engineering and technical assistance (SETA) support services. Stargates challenges the Navy's evaluation of the technical and cost proposals and contends that the best-value tradeoff and source selection decision was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued January 24, 2020, sought task order proposals from small businesses holding contracts under the Navy's SeaPort Next Generation multiple-award task order contract to provide a variety of information technology support services under a single cost-plus-fixed-fee task order, for a base year and four 1-year options. Agency Report

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