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B-420510,B-420510.2 May 04, 2022 1 (2022-05-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaondk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: 22nd Century Technologies, Inc. File: B-420510; B-420510.2 Date: May 4, 2022 Jon D. Levin, Esq., W. Brad English, Esq., and Emily J. Chancey, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, for the protester. Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., Tjasse L. Fritz, Esq., Samarth Barot, Esq., and Sara N. Gerber, Esq., Blank Rome LLC, for TekSynap Corporation, the intervenor. Michael D. McPeak, Esq., and Gregory Matthews, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency evaluation of quotations and tradeoff decision is denied where the evaluation and tradeoff decision were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to TekSynap Corporation, of Reston, Virginia, by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) SP4709-21-Q-0020, issued under DLA's J6 Enterprise Technology Services (JETS) multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for information technology support services. The protester alleges the agency erred in evaluating quotations and in the conduct of its best-value tradeoff. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFQ on September 13, 2021, to holders of the JETS multiple award IDIQ contract. Memorandum of Law (MOL) at 3-4. The RFQ provided award would be made on the basis of a best-value tradeoff between three factors: (1) what the agency terms the non-price factor; (2) past performance; and (3) price. Agency

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