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B-420454,B-420454.2 Apr 15, 2022 1 (2022-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaomzp0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has + + +been approved for public release. Matter of: NOVA Dine, LLC File: B-420454; B-420454.2 Date: April 15, 2022 Thomas Mason, Esq., Francis E. Purcell, Jr., Esq., Joseph Berger, Esq., and Mona Adabi, Esq., Thompson Hine LLP, for the protester. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., William O'Reilly, Esq., and Issac D. Schabes, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP; Daniel J. Strouse, Esq., Cordatis LLP; and Matthew Schoonover, Esq., Schoonover & Moriarty LLC, for Competitive Range Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. Colleen A. Eagan, Esq., and Vera A. Strebel, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Kenneth E. Patton, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that agency engaged in misleading discussions that led the protester to increase its proposed direct labor rates is denied where the agency accurately identified its concerns and where the protester made its own independent business judgment to raise rates rather than justify its proposed rates. 2. Protest challenging agency's assessment of the relevancy of awardee's past performance is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and where the protester has not demonstrated that any errors caused it competitive prejudice. 3. Protest challenging agency's technical evaluation is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation evaluation criteria, and where the agency's different evaluation judgments were reasonably explained by differences in the offerors' proposals. DECISION NOVA Dine, LLC, a small business located in Scottsdale, Arizona, protests the award of a contract to Competitive Range Solutions, LLC (CRS), a small business located in Chicago, Illinois, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HC-1028-20-R-0060, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for the Technologies Refreshment and Implementation-Global Solution Management (TRI-

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