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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
Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
been approved for public release.
Matter of: GVI Inc.
File: B-419397; B-419397.2
Date: February 3, 2021
Christopher J. Slottee, Esq., and Kainui M. Smith, Esq., Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt,
for the protester.
James J. McCullough, Esq., Anayansi Rodriguez, Esq., Michael J. Anstett, Esq., and
Christopher Bell, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for the intervenor.
Richard C. Dale, Esq., and Diana Murphy, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the
agency.
Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest that agency unreasonably assigned a weakness and failed to assign
strengths to protester's technical proposal is denied where record shows that evaluation
was consistent with the solicitation and protester has done no more than demonstrate
its disagreement with the evaluation.
2. Protest that agency unreasonably rated protester limited confidence for past
performance is denied where agency reasonably concluded there were performance
issues on a past performance reference that was very relevant, and a second past
performance reference was only somewhat relevant.
3. Protest that in conducting best-value tradeoff agency should have considered that
protester offered [DELETED] percent small business participation, while awardee
offered only [DELETED] percent small business participation, is denied where small
business participation factor was evaluated as acceptable or unacceptable, and did not
contemplate a comparative evaluation.
4. Protest that during cost realism evaluation agency unreasonably increased
protester's escalation rate for employees covered by service contract labor standards is
denied where protester did not justify proposed escalation rate of zero percent.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaeclj0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)