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B-416753,B-416753.2 1 (2018-12-10)

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GO 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 was subject to
Decision                                     a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                             been approved for public release.

Matter of:  Spatial Front, Inc.

File:       B-416753; B-416753.2

Date:       December 10, 2018

Damien C. Specht, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., R. Locke Bell, Esq., and Caitlin A.
Crujido, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester.
Jon D. Levin, Esq., J. Andrew Watson, Esq., W. Brad English, Esq., Michael W. Rich,
Esq., J. Dale Gipson, Esq., and Katherine E. McGuire, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale,
PC, for Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, the intervenor.
Jeremiah Kline, Esq., Rebecca Jacobsen, Esq., and Robert Preston, Esq., Department
of Commerce, for the agency.
Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals is denied where the agency's
evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
DECISION

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI), a small business concern of McLean, Virginia, protests the
issuance of an order to Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, a small business concern of
Blacksburg, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. CENSUS2016-DEC-1 36,
issued by the Department of Commerce, United States Census Bureau, for information
technology (IT) services to support the Census Bureau's Decennial Information
Technology Division. SFI challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals under the
RFP's three non-price evaluation factors, and the resulting source selection decision.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On December 23, 2016, the Census Bureau issued the solicitation to 12 project tier
contractors under the agency's Systems Engineering and Integration Support (SE&I)

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