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B-413265,B-413265.2 1 (2016-09-21)

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SG              A    O                                                  Comptroller General
.Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                               of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office  DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
  Washington, DC 20548                               The decision issued on the date below wassubjectto
                                                     a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                                     been approved for public release.
           Decision                                                                   ....-.--------------


           Matter of:  TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.

           File:       B-413265; B-413265.2

           Date:       September 21, 2016

           Laurel A. Hockey, Esq., David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., Amy J.
           Spencer, Esq., and Daniel Strouse, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP; Yelena Simonyuk, Esq.,
           Proskauer Rose LLP, for the protester.
           Lee Dougherty, Esq., and Katherine A. Straw, Esq., Montgomery Fazzone PLLC,
           for DataPath, Inc., an intervenor.
           Stacy G. Wilhite, Esq., and Peter S. Kozlowski, Esq., Department of the Army, for
           the agency.
           Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest challenging the agency's evaluation and the selection of a lower-priced
           proposal rated as technically equal to the protester's is denied where the record
           shows that the agency's evaluation and selection decision were reasonable and
           consistent with the solicitation.
           DECISION

           TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS), of Annapolis, Maryland, protests the
           issuance of a task order to DataPath, Inc., of Duluth, Georgia, under request for
           task execution plans (RTEP) $4G-035, issued by the Department of the Army, Army
           Materiel Command (Army), for satellite communication support services. TCS
           challenges the evaluation of the task execution plans (TEPs) and the selection
           decision.

           We deny the protest.

           BACKGROUND

           The RTEP was issued on December 14, 2015, pursuant to Federal Acquisition
           Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5, to firms that had been awarded a Global Tactical
           Advanced Communications Systems (GTACS) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity

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