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B-420272 Jan 07, 2022 1 (2022-01-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaomri0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 L been approved for public release. Matter of: The Bionetics Corporation File: B-420272 Date: January 7, 2022 Michael L. Sterling, Esq., Anthony J. Mazzeo, Esq., and Daniel Salmon, Esq., Vandeventer Black, LLP, for the protester. Colonel Frank Yoon, and Nicholas T. Iliff, Jr., Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Jacob M. Talcott, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's elimination of a proposal from competition is denied where the decision was reasonable and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION The Bionetics Corporation, of Yorktown, Virginia, protests the elimination of its proposal from the competition under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8224-21-R-0002, issued by the Department of the Air Force, for aerospace ground equipment (AGE) operations, maintenance, repair, and dispatch services at Hill Air Force Base (AFB) in Utah and Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona. The protester argues the agency's decision to eliminate its proposal from the competition based on an incomplete price volume was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On March 11, 2021, the agency issued the RFP in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFP at 278. The RFP contemplated the award of a single indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract on a fixed-price, cost-reimbursement basis with a base period from January 6, 2022 to January 5, 2028, and an option period from January 6, 2028 to January 5, 2030. Id. at 2, 82, 255. The due date for proposals, as amended, was May 19, 2021. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 4; AR, Tab 24, RFP amend. 0004 at 1.

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