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B-414360.2,B-414360.3 1 (2017-12-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadupb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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 was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. File: B-414360.2; B-414360.3 Date: December 11, 2017 Aron C. Beezley, Esq., George A. Smith II, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., and Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. S. Lane Tucker, Esq., Stoel Rives LLP, for Yulista Tactical Services, LLC, an intervenor. Karen M. Reilley, Esq., Warnecke Miller, Esq., and Amy V. Xenofos, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Scott H. Riback, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging exclusion of protester's proposal from competitive range is denied where agency reasonably reevaluated protester's proposal and concluded that it was not among the most highly rated. DECISION Pinnacle Solutions, Inc., of Huntsville, Alabama, a small business, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNJ16556087R, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for aircraft logistics, integration, configuration management, and engineering services (known as ALICE), at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Ellington Field, in Houston, Texas; the NASA Forward Operating Location, in El Paso, Texas; the Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Virginia; and other locations. Pinnacle argues that NASA misevaluated proposals and unreasonably excluded it from the competitive range. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND This is our second occasion to consider a protest filed in connection with this acquisition. In a prior decision, we sustained a protest filed by Pinnacle, finding that

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