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B-418726.5,B-418726.6 Aug 17, 2021 1 (2021-08-17)

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Decision
Matter of:  People, Technology and Processes, LLC
File:     B-418726.5; B-418726.6
Date:     August 17, 2021
Victor L. Buonamia, for the protester.
Major Mark T. Robinson, and Major Aaron K. McCartney, Department of the Army, for
the agency.
Raymond Richards, Esq., Edward Goldstein, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of
the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest arguing that an agency's evaluation of quotations conducted pursuant to
Federal Acquisition Regulation provision 52.222-46 is insufficient to satisfy the
solicitation's express requirement to conduct a price realism analysis is denied where
the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable, consistent with the
terms of the unique solicitation at issue, and the protester fails to demonstrate
competitive prejudice.
DECISION
People, Technology & Processes, LLC (PTP), a service-disabled veteran-owned small
business (SDVOSB) of Tampa, Florida, protests the issuance of a task order to
Cornerstone Signals & Cyber Technologies, LLC (Cornerstone), an SDVOSB of
Christoval, Texas, by the Department of the Army under request for quotations (RFQ)
No. W9124L20R0016, for personnel to support the joint fire support specialist (13F)1
course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of
quotations was flawed because it did not include a price realism analysis, and that a
1 The solicitation refers to this course as the 13F program of instruction. Agency
Report (AR), Tab 6, Conformed RFQ at 3. We note that 13F refers to the Army's
military occupation specialty (MOS) code for joint fire support specialists. For
consistency, our decision will refer to the joint fire support specialist course as the 13F
course.

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