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B-420965 Nov 22, 2022 1 (2022-11-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaonys0001 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: Gateway Ventures, Inc.
File:     B-420965
Date:     November 22, 2022
James Y. Boland, Esq., Allison M. Siegel, Esq.,and Lindsay M. Reed, Esq., Venable
LLP, for the protester.
Emilia M. Thompson, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency.
Christine Milne, Esq., Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the
General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that the agency unreasonably eliminated the protester's proposal from
consideration is denied where the record shows that the agency properly determined
that the protester's proposal was unacceptable for failing to meet all of the solicitation's
pass/fail criteria.
DECISION
Gateway Ventures, Inc., of Norfolk, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to
McLaughlin Research Corp., of Middletown, Rhode Island, under request for proposals
(RFP) No. N66604-22-R-3001, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea
Systems Command, for engineering services to support the agency's towed hull and
sensor system programs. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably
eliminated its proposal from consideration.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The facts in this case are straightforward and not in dispute. The RFP contemplates the
issuance, on a best-value tradeoff basis, of a cost-reimbursable task order under the
Navy's SeaPort Next Generation (SeaPort NxG) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity
contracts to perform engineering support services for a 1-year base period and four 1-

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