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B-419023.4 Jul 19, 2021 1 (2021-07-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaomeg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo 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. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Raith Engineering and Manufacturing Company, WLL File: B-419023.4 Date: July 19, 2021 Andrew P. Hallowell, Esq., Pargament & Hallowell, PLLC, for the protester. Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., and Lana Meller, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for Cargo Transport Systems Company, an intervenor. Erika Whelan Retta, Esq., Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., Rebecca MarquetteTatum, Esq., Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Todd P. Federici, Esq., and Robert D. Bowers, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Mercedes Wilson-Barthes and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of the awardee's quotation under a solicitation's technical factors is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Raith Engineering & Manufacturing Company W.L.L., of Sharq, Kuwait, protests the award of a fixed-priced contract to Cargo Transport Systems Company (CTS) of Safat, Kuwait, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HTC71120QW001, issued by the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) for deployment and distribution support services. Raith challenges the evaluation of the awardee's technical approach. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On June 17, 2020, the agency issued the RFQ, which contemplated a fixed-price contract on a lowest-price, technically acceptable basis for a base year and four 1-year option periods. Agency Report (AR), Tab 6, RFQ at 1-7; AR, Tab 9, RFQ Evaluation Criteria at 4. The RFQ, issued pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

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