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B-421504.4,B-421504.5 Nov 29, 2023 1 (2023-11-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaopqo0001 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 version has been - - - - - - approved for public release. Matter of: The Mission Essential Group, LLC File: B-421504.4; B-421504.5 Date: November 29, 2023 Craig A. Holman, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., Stuart W. Turner, Esq., and Julia Swafford, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, for the protester. Jason A. Carey, Esq., J. Hunter Bennett, Esq., Andrew R. Guy, Esq., and Jennifer K. Bentley, Esq., Covington & Burling LLP, for Edge Analytic Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. James E. Durkee, Esq., Max D. Houtz, Esq., William S. Whitman, Esq., and Darren S. Gilkes, Esq., Defense Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the awardee had disqualifying organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the agency waived the alleged conflicts and the waiver was consistent with the requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. 2. Protest challenging the agency's failure to amend the solicitation to incorporate a limitation of future contracting clause is denied where the protester did not establish that it was competitively prejudiced by the agency's actions. 3. Protest alleging inadequate and unequal discussions is dismissed as an untimely challenge to the terms of the solicitation where the solicitation stated that the agency had the discretion to conduct discussions and request proposal revisions from only one offeror, and the protester failed to timely challenge these terms by the closing date. 4. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals under technical factor is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and the protester could not establish that it was competitively prejudiced by the agency's evaluation errors. DECISION

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