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                    U.S. GOVERNMENT   ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                             of the United States


                                                DOCUMENT   FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

Decision                                      The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                              a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                              been approved for public release.

Matter of:   Peraton, Inc.

File:        B-421038.6; B-421038.7; B-421038.8; B-421038.9; B-421038.10

Date:     April  12, 2023

Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., Jeffrey M. Lowry, Esq., and Tamara
Droubi, Esq., Vedder Price P.C., for the protester.
Robert K. Tompkins, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Hillary J. Freund, Esq., and
Richard Ariel, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for CACI NSS LLC, the intervenor.
Colonel Frank Yoon, Major James B. Leighton, Aaron J. Weaver, Esq., Rachel C.
D'Orazio, Esq., and Sean Hannaway, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest alleging that awardee gained an unfair competitive advantage based on
employment  of former government officials is denied where the agency, after
conducting an investigation of the alleged conflict of interest, reasonably concluded that
the former officials did not have access to non-public, competitively useful information.

2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of quotations under the prior experience,
technical and management, and small business utilization factors is denied where the
record shows the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation criteria.

3. Protest of agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the protester has
not shown that the underlying evaluation was unreasonable or inconsistent with the
solicitation criteria.

DECISION

Peraton Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase
agreement  (BPA) with CACI NSS  LLC, of Reston, Virginia, under request for quotations
(RFQ)  No. FA8726-22-Q-0001, issued by the Department of the Air Force for
information technology (IT) services, end user devices, an enterprise service desk, and
organizational change management.  The protester contends that CACI obtained an
unfair competitive advantage by hiring three former agency employees. The protester

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