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B-418706,B-418706.2 Aug 07, 2020 1 (2020-08-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaolnq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
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:  DirectViz Solutions, LLC
File:     B-418706; B-418706.2
Date:     August 7, 2020
Damien C. Specht, Esq., Sandeep N. Nandivada, Esq., and Caitlin A. Crujido, Esq.,
Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester.
Scott F. Lane, Esq., Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., and Jayna M. Rust, Esq., Thompson
Coburn LLP, for Exeter Information Technology Services, LLC, the intervenor.
Matthew R. Wilson, Esq. and Warren A Reardon, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protests alleging that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable
source selection decision are denied where the record shows that the agency's
evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
DECISION
DirectViz Solutions, LLC (DirectViz), a small business of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the
issuance of a task order to Exeter Information Technology Services, LLC (Exeter), a
small business of Gaithersburg, Maryland, under solicitation No. 307595, issued by the
Department of the Army for enterprise information technology (IT) support services.
The protester challenges various aspects of the Army's evaluation of proposals under
the technical/management factor and maintains that the best-value decision was
unreasonable.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
On December 20, 2019, the agency issued the solicitation to all small businesses
holding contracts under the Army's Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software Solutions
(CHESS) IT Enterprise Solutions (ITES-3S) multiple-award indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, pursuant to the procedures of Federal Acquisition

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