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B-415812.2,B-415970,B-415970.2 1 (2018-05-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadupk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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 wassubjectto a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: File: Date: Trailboss Enterprises, Inc. B-415812.2; B-415970; B-415970.2 May 7, 2018 Charles R. Lucy, Esq., Holland & Hart LLP, for the protester. Colonel C. Taylor Smith, Isabelle Cutting, Esq., and Justin D. Haselden, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the terms of a solicitation is denied where the agency had a reasonable basis to use a lowest-priced, technically-acceptable evaluation scheme, and where the solicitation's terms were not unduly restrictive of competition. 2. Protest challenging the award of a sole-source contract is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that only the incumbent contractor could provide the required services during the period between the expiration of the incumbent contract and the anticipated award of the new contract. 3. Protest alleging that the terms of a solicitation and a sole-source award reflect a biased grounds rules organizational conflict of interest is dismissed in part and denied in part where the protester fails to demonstrate hard facts reflecting a conflict and where the protester does not show that the agency's investigation was unreasonable. 4. Protest alleging bias against the protester is denied where the protester's inferences do not demonstrate a specific intent by agency officials to harm the protester. DECISION Trailboss Enterprises, Inc., of Fort Worth, Texas, challenges the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4897-17-R-0006, which was issued by the Department of the Air Force for training services in support of the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF). Trailboss also challenges the award of a sole-source contract to PKL Services, Inc., of Poway, California, under solicitation No. FA4897-18-R-0010, for training services during

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