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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
                                           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:   Greystones Consulting Group, Inc.

File:     B-421607; B-421607.2

Date:        July 18, 2023

Lewis P. Rhodes, Esq., Reston Law Group, LLP, for the protester.
Erika L. Whelan-Retta, Esq., Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., and Christian H. Robertson II,
Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Kyle E. Gilbertson, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the evaluation of the firm's proposal as technically unacceptable is
denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and in accordance
with the solicitation's terms, and did not employ unstated evaluation criteria.
DECISION

Greystones Consulting Group, LLC (Greystones), a woman-owned  small business of
Washington, DC, protests the agency's decision not to award the firm a contract under
request for proposals (RFP) No. FA880623R0001, issued by the United States Space
Force for data services support. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its
technical proposal.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The agency  issued the RFP on January 17, 2023, in accordance with the commercial
items procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12, and the negotiated
procurement procedures of part 15. Agency Report (AR), Tab 7, Request for Proposals
(RFP) at 155.1 The solicitation, issued on an unrestricted, full and open competitive


1 Unless otherwise noted, citations to the record are to the Adobe PDF document page
numbers.  The agency amended   the RFP twice. All citations are to the final version of
the RFP found at AR, Tab 7.

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