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B-419477.2 Jun 10, 2021 1 (2021-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaolus0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o 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 D e cis io n a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Squire Solutions, Inc. File: B-419477.2 Date: June 10, 2021 Alan Grayson, Esq., for the protester. Hillary A. H. Spadaccini, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency unreasonably rejected the protester's phase I proposal submitted in response to a Small Business Innovation Research solicitation is denied where agency evaluation did not violate solicitation or procurement regulations and was otherwise reasonable. 2. Protest alleging that evaluation was tainted by bias on the part of an agency evaluator is denied where the protester has failed to provide any convincing proof to demonstrate that agency evaluators acted in bad faith or were biased. DECISION Squire Solutions, Inc., a small business of New York, New York, protests the decision by the Department of the Navy not to select its proposal for award under the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program broad agency announcement (BAA) No. SBIRDOD-20-2-BAA, Topic N202-133, which invited phase I proposals for research and development projects regarding multimodal interaction technologies to support small unit leaders. Squire contends the agency's evaluation of its proposal was improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The SBIR program was established under the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982, and is codified in section 98 of the Small Business Act. 15 U.S.C. § 638. The program is designed to increase the participation of small business concerns in federally funded research or research and development (R/R&D). Pursuant to this

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