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B-421248.4 Sep 07, 2023 1 (2023-09-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaopfz0001 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: A. Prentice Ray & Associates, LLC File: B-421248.4 Date: September 7, 2023 Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., Potomac Law Group, PLLC, for the protester. John W. Cox, Esq., and Kathleen D. Martin, Esq., Department of State, 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 Protest challenging the agency's price realism analysis is denied where the agency evaluated the realism of proposed prices in accordance with the terms of the solicitation; the agency was not required to conduct an in-depth analysis of the awardees' prices in the manner argued by the protester. DECISION A. Prentice Ray & Associates, LLC (APRA), an 8(a)1 certified, woman-owned small business located in Washington, District of Columbia, protests the corrective action undertaken by the Department of State (DOS) in response to APRA's earlier protest (B-421248.3) challenging the award of indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts2 under request for proposals (RFP) No. 19AQMM22R0221, for staffing support services. APRA challenges the agency's price realism evaluation of DGI's and Maven's proposals. 1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a), authorizes the Small Business Administration to enter into contracts with government agencies and to arrange for performance through subcontracts with socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.800. This program is commonly referred to as the 8(a) program. 2 The awardees are: (1) DGI-ATI JV, LLC (DGI), located in Catonsville, Maryland; (2) Maven OFS JV, Inc. (Maven), located in Leesburg, Virginia. HTGS-CULMEN JV, LLC (HTGS), located in Herndon, Virginia, another awardee, was also one of the subjects of APRA's earlier protest.

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