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B-420905.2,B-420905.3 Jan 19, 2023 1 (2023-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaooeh0001 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: DGG RE Investments, LLC File: B-420905.2; B-420905.3 Date: January 19, 2023 Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., John M. Mattox II, Esq., Ian P. Patterson, Esq., and Timothy J. Laughlin, Esq., Schoonover & Moriarty LLC, for the protester. Elin Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Nathaniel S. Canfield, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. DECISION DGG RE Investments, LLC, doing business as Guardian Asset Management (Guardian), of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, protests its exclusion from the procurement under request for proposals (RFP) No. 12SAD122R0001, issued by the Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rural Development Administration, for nationwide default management services. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably determined its proposal to be technically unacceptable, and raises other challenges to the evaluation of its proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12 on May 6, 2022, and subsequently amended it nine times.1 Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, 1 Our Office previously sustained a protest filed by another firm alleging that the agency failed to conduct adequate market research to determine whether certain terms of the

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