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B-418730 1 (2020-06-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebgz0001 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 was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Babel Street, Inc. File: B-418730 Date: June 16, 2020 Damien C. Specht, Esq., R. Locke Belle, Esq., and Victoria Dalcourt Angle, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester. Seth H. Locke, Esq., Lee P. Curtis, Esq., and Julia M. Fox, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for Dataminir, Inc., the intervenor. Kyle E. Gilbertson, Esq., and Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is dismissed where the protester is not an interested party to challenge the agency's actions because even if its protest grounds were sustained, it would remain ineligible for award. DECISION Babel Street, Inc., a small business of Reston, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Dataminr, Inc., of New York, New York, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA7014-20-R-0005, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the publicly available information alerting Department of Defense enterprise license subscription (PADELS) service. The protester contends that the agency engaged in unequal discussions, unreasonably evaluated technical proposals, and performed an impermissible price realism analysis. Protest at 2-3. We dismiss the protest because Babel Street is not an interested party to challenge the award. The RFP, issued on November 13, 2019, was set aside for small businesses and contemplated the award of a contract for a PADELS service. Protest, exh. A, RFP Memo at 1. Award was to be made on a best-value tradeoff basis, considering price

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