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B-299817 1 (2007-08-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaugq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: S4, Inc. File: B-299817; B-299817.2 Date: August 23, 2007 David M. Pronchick, Esq., and Seth Cowell, Esq., BlueLaw LLP, for the protester. Daniel B. Abrahams, Esq., Shlomo D. Katz, Esq., and Pamela A. Reynolds, Esq., Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., for Croop-LaFrance Inc., an intervenor. Maj. Jeffrey Branstetter, Maj. John G. Terra, and Bradley S. Adams, Esq., Department of the Air Force; and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is denied where agency evaluation of past performance, and ultimate selection of awardee's lower-priced proposal was reasonable, and consistent with stated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest is denied where agency properly proceeded with award notwithstanding absence of applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code from awardee's entries in the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) system because other information posted there confirmed that awardee represented itself to be small under applicable size standard. DECISION S4, Inc., a small business, protests the award of a contract to Croop-LaFrance Inc. by the Department of the Air Force under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8530-07-R-10248 for information technology desktop management services. S4 argues that the Air Force misevaluated the awardee's past performance, improperly conducted discussions only with the awardee, disregarded the basis for award stated in the RFP, and disregarded the awardee's failure to list the applicable North

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