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B-420279.2,B-420279.4,B-420279.5 Jan 19, 2022 1 (2022-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaomsf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA.O 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Halfaker and Associates, LLC File: B-420279.2; B-420279.4; B-420279.5 Date: January 19, 2022 James J. McCullough, Esq., Michael J. Anstett, Esq., and Anayansi Rodriguez, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for the protester. Kara M. Sacilotto, Esq., Sarah B. Hansen, Esq., Nicole E. Giles, Esq., and W. Benjamin Phillips, III, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Liberty IT Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., E. Pamela McArthur, Esq., and Mellany Alio, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was consistent with the contents of the offerors' proposals and the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging agency's failure to disqualify awardee due to alleged organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the protester does not identify hard facts supporting the alleged conflicts of interest. 3. Protest challenging agency's best-value tradeoff determination is denied where agency adequately documented its reason for issuing a task order to the higher-priced, technically superior offeror. DECISION Halfaker and Associates, LLC, located in Arlington, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Liberty IT Solutions, LLC, located in Herndon, Virginia, under request for task execution plan (RTEP) No. T4NG-0613, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health services development, security and operations (DevSecOps) support. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated Halfaker and Liberty's technical approaches, failed to disqualify the awardee despite its organizational conflicts of interest (OCIs), and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff determination.

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