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B-419488.4 Jul 21, 2021 1 (2021-07-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaomco0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. The entire decision has been approved for public release. Matter of: Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC File: B-419488.4 Date: July 21, 2021 Jon D. Levin, Esq., and Emily Chancey, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, for the protester. Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., Brittin Law Group, PLLC, for Halvik, Inc., the intervenor. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Erika Whelan Retta, Esq., Matthew W. Haynes, Esq., Major Allison K.W. Johnson, and Major Brian Shust, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Hannah G. Barnes, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the exclusion of protester's proposal from the competitive range is denied where record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. DECISION Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, a woman-owned small business of Blacksburg, Virginia, protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. 342275, issued by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), for information technology services. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal and improperly eliminated the proposal from the competitive range. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was issued on October 2, 2020, under the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 16.5 to holders of the Department of the Army's Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-3 Services (ITES-3S) governmentwide multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. The solicitation contemplated the issuance of a task order to provide enterprise knowledge management (EKM)

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