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B-420609,B-420609.2 Jun 24, 2022 1 (2022-06-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaonhc0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision r~do rss D ecisio nbeen approved for public release. Matter of: DarkStar Intelligence, LLC File: B-420609; B-420609.2 Date: June 24, 2022 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for the protester. William K. Walker, Esq., Walker Reausaw, for Chenega Enterprise Systems & Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. Robert D. Banfield, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Samantha S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the awardee should have been disqualified based on its approach to key personnel is denied where the protester has not demonstrated that the awardee made any misrepresentation about its approach and the agency's evaluation of that approach was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protests challenging the evaluations of past performance and technical quotations and the resulting award decision are denied where the evaluations were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and the protester did not demonstrate competitive prejudice resulting from the alleged errors. 3. Protest alleging that the agency conducted discussions with only the awardee is denied where the exchange was a request for a price reduction conducted after the agency had selected the awardee under Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4. DECISION DarkStar Intelligence, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Woodbridge, Virginia, protests the Department of the Interior's (DOI) issuance of a task order on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to Chenega Enterprise Systems & Solutions, LLC (ChESS), a small disadvantaged business of Chesapeake, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 140D0422Q0086, for human intelligence (HUMINT) targeting instructors. DarkStar argues that the agency misevaluated quotations and made an unreasonable source selection decision.

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