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B-414366.2 1 (2017-06-13)

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GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                           of the United States
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                                           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:  Right Direction Technology Solutions, LLC

File:       B-414366.2

Date:       June 13, 2017

Jerry Alfonso Miles, Esq., Angeline R. Burke, Esq., and Christine Funk. Esq., Deale
Services, LLC, for the protester.
Donald J. Walsh, Esq., Wright, Constable, & Skeen, LLP, for SciTech Services, Inc, the
intervenor.
Erica A. Harder Smith, Esq., and Wade L. Brown, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation is denied where the evaluation
was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria.
DECISION

Right Direction Technology Solutions, LLC (RDTS), of Baltimore, Maryland, protests the
award of a contract to SciTech Services, Inc., of Havre de Grace, Maryland, under
request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 1 NF-16-R-0020, which was issued by the
Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, for Small Business Innovative
Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program
management and technical support services. The protester alleges that the agency
conducted a flawed evaluation of its own and the awardee's proposals.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The Army issued the RFP on September 26, 2016, under Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) part 15, as a set-aside for small business concerns to provide support
for the Army's SBIR/STTR program management office in the form of program
management and technical services that assist the government's in-house efforts and
expertise. RFP at 11, 64. The RFP anticipated the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee

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