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B-419149.2,B-419149.3 1 (2021-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeckp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo 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 The decision issued on the date below was subject to D e s / ' +'a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: KIRA Training Services, LLC, dba KIRA Facilities Services File: B-419149.2; B-419149.3 Date: January 4, 2021 Damien C. Specht, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and Caitlin A Crujido, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester. Adam Lasky, Esq., Joseph J. Dyer, Esq., Edward V. Arnold, Esq, and Bret C. Marfut, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw LLP, for Invicta Defense LLC, the intervenor. Laura Whitten, Esq., and John Aguon, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals under multiple evaluation factors is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. 2. Protest alleging that awardee's pricing is unbalanced is dismissed where the protester initially fails to make the threshold showing that one or more of the awardee's prices was overstated and the protester's later attempt to file a supplemental basis for this ground of protest is untimely. 3. Protest challenging agency's selection of a lower-rated, lower-priced proposal for award is unobjectionable where the agency's tradeoff decision was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria, and where the agency adequately documented its tradeoff rationale. 4. Protest alleging that the agency failed to comply with the pre-award notification requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.503(a)(2) is denied where no timely post-award size protest was filed and the awardee has not been determined by the Small Business Administration to be other than small. DECISION KIRA Training Services LLC, a small business of Colorado Springs, Colorado, protests the award of a contract to Invicta Defense LLC, a small business of Fort Worth, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N40192-20-R-7040, issued by the Department of

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