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B-415716.38 Dec 04, 2019 1 (2019-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaoloi0001 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: Strategic Services and Solutions, JV
File:     B-415716.38
Date:     December 4, 2019
John M. Heida, Esq., Heida Law Firm, LLC, for the protester.
Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Kevin P. Stiens, Esq., and
Major Celina E. Duvall, Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of protester's proposal under the past
performance evaluation factor is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was
reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.
DECISION
Strategic Services and Solutions, JV (Space-S3), a service-disabled veteran-owned
small business joint venture (JV) of Bellevue, Nebraska, protests the decision by the
Department of the Air Force to exclude its proposal from competition under request for
proposals (RFP) No. FA8771-17-R-1000 for information technology (IT) services.1 The
protester maintains that the agency unreasonably excluded its proposal from
competition.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
On September 28, 2019, the agency issued the RFP, known as the Small Business
Enterprise Application Solutions (SBEAS) solicitation, as a set-aside for small
1 Space-S3 is a JV comprised of Software Engineering Services; Defense Acquisition
Inc.; SIM&S; INADEV; People, Technology & Processes; and MILVETS. Agency
Report (AR), Tab 6, Space-S3 Proposal, Vol. III, Past Performance at 1.

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