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B-420724 Aug 05, 2022 1 (2022-08-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaonyj0001 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:  United Support Services, Inc.
File:     B-420724
Date:     August 5, 2022
Richard B. Oliver, Esq., and J. Matthew Carter, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
LLP, for the protester.
John McHugh, Esq., and Amanda Belanger, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the
agency.
Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal and its exclusion from
the competition is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable.
DECISION
United Support Services, Inc. (USS), a small business of San Diego, California, protests
the exclusion of its proposal from the competition under request for proposals (RFP)
No. M95494-22-R-3001, issued by the Department of the Navy, U.S. Marine Corps
(USMC) for information technology support services. The protester argues that the
agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal as unacceptable.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
On January 7, 2022, the USMC issued the solicitation in accordance with Federal
Acquisition Regulation 16.505, as a set-aside for participants in the Small Business
Administration's 8(a) program. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, RFP Sections A-M, and
attachments A, B, and L-1 (RFP) at 1 and 26.1 The RFP was issued to holders of the
Navy's SeaPort Next Generation (SeaPort NxG) contract, a multiple award

1 Citations to the RFP refer to the Adobe PDF page numbers.

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