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B-419534 Mar 22, 2021 1 (2021-03-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecrw0001 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 Decision Matter of: Mesotech International, Inc. File: B-419534 Date: March 22, 2021 Christopher R. Swinehart, Mesotech International, Inc., for the protester. Colonel Patricia Wegman-Lenz, Captain Allison K.W. Johnson, and Sean B. Brady, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is dismissed where protester effectively concedes that its proposal contained at least one deficiency that rendered it ineligible for award, and protester is otherwise not an interested party to maintain any of its remaining allegations. DECISION Mesotech International, Inc., of Sacramento, California, protests the rejection of its proposal submitted in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8730-20-R-0050, issued by the Department of the Air Force for tactical meteorological observation system support services. Mesotech argues that the agency misevaluated its proposal. We dismiss the protest. The RFP contemplates the award, on a lowest-price, technically acceptable basis, of a fixed-price contract to provide sustainment services for a quantity of tactical meteorological observing systems fielded worldwide for a base ordering period of 5 years, a single 1-year option period, and a second, 6-month option period. In addition to price, firms were advised that proposals would be evaluated on a pass/fail basis under a single technical evaluation factor that included five equally-weighted1 subfactors as follows: transition plan, program management plan, automated observation system 1 The RFP did not specify the relative weights for the technical evaluation subfactors, so we conclude that they were equally weighted. High Noon Unlimited, Inc., B-417830, Nov. 15, 2019, 2019 CPD ¶ 387 at 2.

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