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B-415028.3,B-415028.4 1 (2018-09-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadved0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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 belowwassubject to a GAO Protective Order. Thisredacted version has Decision been approved forpublic release. Matter of: Sigmatech, Inc. File: B-415028.3; B-415028.4 Date: September 11, 2018 Jon D. Levin, Esq., J. Dale Gipson, Esq., and Katherine E. McGuire, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, for the protester. Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., and Christopher L. Lockwood, Esq., Wilmer & Lee, P.A., for DigiFlight, Inc., the intervenor. Jonathan A. Hardage, Esq., Christopher C. Schwan, Esq., David Watson, Esq., and Stacy G. Wilhite, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 evaluation of vendors' technical quotations is denied where the evaluation was consistent with the terms of the solicitation and was otherwise reasonable. 2. Protest alleging that the agency evaluated vendors on an unequal basis is dismissed as untimely where the protester raised supplemental arguments more than 10 days after receiving a detailed explanation of the agency's assessment of strengths for the awardee's quotation. 3. Protest alleging that the award was tainted by a disqualifying conflict of interest is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that no such conflict exists. DECISION Sigmatech, Inc., of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the issuance of a task order to DigiFlight, Inc., also of Huntsville, Alabama, by the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, under task order request for quotations (TORFQ) No. 2015P-06, for support for the Security Assistance Management Directorate (SAMD). The protester argues that the agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated the vendors' technical quotations, failed to reasonably assess whether the awardee had a disqualifying organizational conflict of interest (OCI), and made an unreasonable award decision.

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