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B-419419.5,B-419419.6 Mar 15, 2023 1 (2023-03-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaookw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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: Horizon Strategies, LLC File: B-419419.5; B-419419.6 Date: March 15, 2023 Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Nathaniel J. Greeson, Esq., and Gabrielle A. Sprio, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. Craig A. Holman, Esq., Thomas A. Pettit, Esq., and Julia A. Swafford, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for SilverStar Consulting, Inc., the intervenor. Andrew J. Smith, Esq., Lieutenant Colonel Seth B. Ritzman, Captain Dmitrius R. McGruder, and Captain Natalie W. McKiernan, Department of the Army, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging numerous aspects of agency's evaluation of competing offerors' technical, past performance, and cost/price proposals is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest that award was tainted by personal conflicts of interest is denied where the contracting officer meaningfully considered protester's allegations and reasonably concluded that no disqualifying conflicts existed. 3. Protest that agency did not perform a proper best-value tradeoff and essentially converted the basis for award from a tradeoff to a lowest-priced, technically acceptable source selection methodology is denied where the record shows that the agency performed a best-value tradeoff that was reasonable and adequately documented. DECISION Horizon Strategies, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business located in Winston Salem, North Carolina, protests the award of a contract to SilverStar Consulting, Inc. (SilverStar), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business located in Falls Church, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9124D20R0016. The RFP was issued by the Department of the Army, Mission and Installation Contracting Command, to obtain support services for the Army's soldier for life transition assistance

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