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B-415760.5 1 (2020-11-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecas0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAiOU.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: Posterity Arora JV, LLC File: B-415760.5 Date: November 2, 2020 Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., John M. Mattox II, Esq., and Ian P. Patterson, Esq., Schoonover and Moriarty, LLC, for the protester. Timothy F. Valley, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the intervenor. Andrew J. Smith, Esq., Dana J. Chase, Esq., Nicholas Lucchetti, Department of the Army, for the agency. John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that agency's evaluation approach converted a best-value tradeoff procurement into a lowest-price, technically acceptable competition is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was consistent with the solicitation, meaningfully considered the relative merits of the proposals, and resulted in a reasonable best-value tradeoff. 2. Protest alleging that agency's evaluation of proposals applied an unstated evaluation criterion and deviated from the terms of the solicitation is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation DECISION Posterity Arora JV, LLC (Posterity), of Rockville, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to WiseStaff, LLC, of Houston, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W81 K04-17-R-0004, issued by the Department of the Army, for licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) and certified nursing assistants (CNAs) for the San Antonio Military Health System. Posterity protests that the agency's evaluation was unreasonable and improperly converted a best-value tradeoff procurement into a lowest-price, technically acceptable (LPTA) competition; applied an unstated evaluation criterion; and deviated from the solicitation terms. We deny the protest.

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