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B-419385.9;B-419385.10 Dec 27, 2022 1 (2022-12-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaooci0001 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:  Bowhead Mission Solutions, LLC
File:     B-419385.9; B-419385.10
Date:     December 27, 2022
Robert K. Tompkins, Esq., Kelsey M. Hayes, Esq., Sean R. Belanger, Esq., and Richard
Ariel, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester.
Thomas M. Dunlap, Esq., Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., and A. Jonathan Brittin, Jr.,
Esq., Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC, for Manta Group LLC, the intervenor.
Karen A. Janco, Esq., and Kathleen K. Barksdale, Esq., General Services
Administration, 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 implementation of prior corrective action to create a new
technical evaluation panel is denied where although agency did not completely replace
technical evaluation panel, the award decision was reasonably made by a new source
selection authority.
2. Protest of evaluation and best-value tradeoff determination is denied where the
protester has not demonstrated that the agency acted unreasonably or treated offerors
unequally.
DECISION
Bowhead Mission Solutions, LLC, a small business of Springfield, Virginia, protests the
issuance of a task order to Manta Group, LLC, a small business of Reston, Virginia,
under request for proposals (RFP) No. ID03200029, issued by the General Services
Administration (GSA) for global fielding services. Bowhead argues that the agency
improperly implemented corrective action in response to a prior protest, unreasonably
evaluated proposals, and made a flawed best-value tradeoff decision.

We deny the protest.

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