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B-419919.6,B-419919.7,B-419919.8 Sep 12, 2022 1 (2022-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaonqc0001 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: R&K Enterprise Solutions, Inc. File: B-419919.6; B-419919.7; B-419919.8 Date: September 12, 2022 Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., and Tamara Droubi, Esq., Vedder Price P.C., for the protester. William T. Welch, Esq., J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., and Lewis Rhodes, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, for Cyber Engineering and Technical Alliance, LLC, the intervenor. Colonel Frank Yoon and Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. David A. Edelstein, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of the agency's evaluation of technical proposals is denied where the protester has not demonstrated that the agency's decision was unreasonable or constituted disparate treatment. 2. Protest of the agency's decision not to conduct discussions is denied where solicitation provided that the agency intended to make award without discussions and no statute or regulation required the agency to conduct discussions. 3. Protest of the agency's best-value tradeoff decision is sustained where the record reflects that the agency did not qualitatively compare proposals before issuing the task order to the higher-priced, higher-rated proposal. DECISION R&K Enterprise Solutions, Inc., a small business of Newport News, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Cyber Engineering and Technical Alliance, LLC (CETA), a small business of Columbia, Maryland, under Fair Opportunity Proposal Request (FOPR) No. FA4890-21 -R-0001, issued by the Department of the Air Force, Air Combat Command, for information dominance support. R&K challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals, the agency's decision not to engage in discussions, and the agency's best-value tradeoff decision.

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