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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 a
                                               GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions;
D  ecision                                      -weare therefore releasing the decision in its entirety.


Matter of:   ISS Action, Inc.

File:        B-419469

Date:     March 19,   2021

Robert K. Tompkins, Esq., Hillary J. Freund, Esq., and Kelsey M. Hayes, Esq.,
Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester.
Jeffrey E. Weinstein, Esq., Weinstein Law Group, PLLC, for Montech Inc., the
intervenor.
JiSan A. Lopez, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency.
Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest that contracting agency misevaluated the awardee's proposal as technically
acceptable is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable and
consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
DECISION

ISS Action, Inc., of Jamaica, New York, a small business, protests the award of a
contract to Montech Inc., of Albuquerque, New Mexico,1 under request for
proposals (RFP) No. 89233120RNA000078, issued   by the Department of
Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), for security services at
the agency's Albuquerque complex campus  and the Albuquerque complex project
administrative building (currently under construction), which are located on Kirtland Air
Force Base, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ISS argues that DOE misevaluated
Montech's proposal as technically acceptable.

We  deny the protest.



1 Montech represented that it was a small business in connection with the RFP. The
agency states that a challenge to Montech's size is pending before the Small Business
Administration's Office of Hearings and Appeals, and that the agency has left the
contract in place pending the outcome. Agency Report (AR) Memorandum  of
Law  (MOL), at 12 n.3.

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