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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 now
been approved for public release.
Matter of: ACI Technologies, Inc.
File: B-420129
Date: December 10, 2021
Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Edmund M. Amorosi, Esq., and Jonathan Keller, Esq., Smith
Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester.
Robert Charles Rutherford, Esq., The Pennsylvania State University, for the intervenor.
Stephanie J. Quade, Esq., and Adam A. Orr, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the
agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency reasonably evaluated proposals under technical, past performance, and cost
evaluation factors and properly made award on the basis of awardee's technically
superior, lower-priced proposal.
DECISION
ACI Technologies, Inc., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, protests the Department of the
Navy's award of a contract to The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), of State
College, Pennsylvania, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. N00014-20-R-
0006, for the operation and management of the Navy's electronics manufacturing
center. ACI protests multiple aspects of the agency's source selection process,
asserting, among other things, that the agency failed to ... properly evaluate proposals
under the technical, past performance and cost factors. Protest at 1.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 U.S.C. § 2501(a), the Secretary of Defense has
established a Manufacturing Technology [ManTech] Program to further national
security objectives. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1 B, RFP Statement of Work (SOW) at 2.
The ManTech program is intended to improve the manufacturing quality, productivity,
technology and practices of business and workers providing goods and services to the
Department of Defense [DOD]. Id. Pursuant to DOD Directive 4200.15, the various](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaomob0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)