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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States


                                                 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Decision                                       The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                               a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                               been  approved  forpublic release  ----------.---------------------------------
Matter of:   Decypher Technologies, Ltd.

File:        B-415716.15

Date:       January 9, 2019

Kristin E. Zachman, Esq., Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, PC, for the
protester.
Lieutenant Colonel Ryan J. Lambrecht, Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air
Force, for the agency.
Katherine I. Riback, 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 evaluation of protester's proposal under the technical
experience evaluation factor is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was
reasonable and consistent with the solicitation, and any errors in the agency's
evaluation did not prejudice the protester.
DECISION

Decypher Technologies, Ltd., a small business of San Antonio, Texas, protests the
exclusion of its proposal from the competition by the Department of the Air Force under
request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8771-17-R-1 000 for information technology (IT)
services.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On September 28, 2017, the Air Force issued the Small Business Enterprise Application
Solutions (SBEAS) RFP, which was set aside for small businesses, pursuant to the
procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15. Agency Report (AR),
Tab 5, RFP at 162.1 The solicitation contemplated the award of 40 indefinite-delivery,

1 Citations to the RFP are to the conformed copy provided by the agency. AR, Tab 5,
RFP.

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