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B-418963.5,B-418963.6,B-418963.7,B-418963.8,B-418963.9 Jun 01, 2022 1 (2022-06-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaonfb0001 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Systems Implementers, Inc.; Transcend Technological Systems, LLC File: B-418963.5; B-418963.6; B-418963.7; B-418963.8; B-418963.9 Date: June 1, 2022 David S. Black, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Amy L. Fuentes, Esq., and Danielle R. Rich, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Systems Implementers, Inc.; J. Sott Hommer, III, Esq., Rebecca E. Pearson, Esq., Christopher G. Griesedieck, Esq., Taylor A. Hillman, Esq., Marcos R. Gonzalez, Esq., and Lindsay M. Reed, Esq., Venable LLP, for Transcend Technological Systems, LLC, the protesters. Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Matthew E. Feinberg, Esq., Jacqueline K. Unger, Esq., and Eric A. Valle, Esq., Piliero Mazza, for OM Group, Inc., the intervenor. Colonel Frank Yoon, Major Alissa J. K. Schrider, and Heidi M. Fischer, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protests challenging agency's technical evaluation of the awardee's proposal are denied because the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protests that the agency should have assigned protesters' proposals multiple strengths and higher technical ratings reflect the protesters' disagreement with the agency's evaluation judgment, and provide no basis for sustaining the protests. 3. Protests that the agency evaluated in a disparate manner are denied because the record reflects that differences in evaluations were a result of differences in proposals. 4. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of offerors' professional employee compensation plans is denied because the record demonstrates that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation and the requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulation provision 52.222-46. 3. Protests challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff source selection decision are denied. With respect to the first protester, the agency reasonably found that firm's

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