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B-421568.3 Dec 14, 2023 1 (2023-12-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaopqv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G . U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States De^cson DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Deis ion The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Matter of: MPZA, LLC been approved for public release. File: B-421568.3 Date: December 14, 2023 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., and Jacqueline Koromah, Esq. Offit Kurman, for the protester. James Y. Boland, Esq, Michael T. Francel, Esq., and Allison M. Siegel, Esq., Venable LLP, for Eagle Harbor, LLC, the intervenor. Nathan E. Mires, Esq., and Robert J. Alley, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that evaluation was not consistent with the solicitation and that the agency disparately evaluated offerors' proposed staffing and level of effort are dismissed for failing to set forth factually and legally sufficient bases of protest, where arguments are based on protester's misreading of the solicitation and debriefing, respectively. 2. Protest that agency should have rejected awardee's proposal for failing to follow the solicitation's pricing proposal instructions is denied where record shows the protester's contentions to be factually inaccurate, and the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposal was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION MPZA, LLC, a small disadvantaged business of Gaithersburg, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Eagle Harbor, LLC, a small disadvantaged business of Anchorage, Alaska, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 155A00021 R00000101, issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for information technology (IT) support services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals and resulting best-value tradeoff. We dismiss the protest in part and deny the protest in part. BACKGROUND On May 27, 2022, using the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15, the agency issued the solicitation as a set-aside for small disadvantaged

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