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B-421053 Dec 16, 2022 1 (2022-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaoocs0001 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: Two Knights Defense, LLC
File:      B-421053
Date:      December 16, 2022
Benjamin R. Little, Esq., Dentons Sirote PC, for the protester.
Jon D. Levin, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale P.C., for Five Stones Research
Corporation, the intervenor.
Major Nhu T. Tran, Department of the Army, for the agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Agency reasonably evaluated protester's past performance proposal, including
relevancy assessments that reflected the protester's failure to provide sufficient detail
regarding its prior activities.
2. Agency was reasonable in upwardly adjusting protester's proposed cost/price where
protester failed to provide a convincing explanation regarding labor rates that were
below the solicitation's benchmark rates.
3. Agency reasonably concluded that protester's proposal met, but did not exceed, the
solicitation requirements with regard to two mission capability subfactors.
DECISION
Two Knights Defense, LLC (2KD), of Huntsville, Alabama,1 protests the Missile Defense
Agency's (MDA) award of a contract to Five Stones Research Corporation (Five
Stones), pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. HQ0858-22-R-0002, to provide
1 2KD is a joint venture comprised of System High Corporation and Cintel, Inc. Protest
at 2. (All references to page numbers in this decision are to the Adobe PDF page
numbers in the documents submitted.)

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