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G G            A    O                                                Comptroller General
.       Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                      of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548



          Decision


          Matter of: TruLogic, Inc.

          File:       B-297252.3

          Date:       January 30, 2006

          Theresa Armentrout for the protester.
          Igor Boris, Command Technology, Inc., for the intervenor.
          Maj. Jeffrey Branstetter, Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
          Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Source selection authority's (SSA) disagreement with the majority of the evaluators
          and acceptance of the minority's recommendation that the awardee be selected for
          award is unobjectionable and does not evidence a lack of impartiality, where the
          SSA reached a reasoned conclusion, supported by the record, that the awardee's
          lower-priced, lower-rated proposal deserved a higher technical rating than was
          assigned by the majority and represented the best value to the government.
          DECISION

          TruLogic, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Command Technology, Inc. (CTI)
          under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8104-05-R-0414, issued by the Department
          of the Air Force for Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) systems
          development and Technical Order (TO) sustainment. TruLogic challenges the
          agency's technical and price evaluation, and contends that the source selection
          authority (SSA) was biased.

          We deny the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          TruLogic previously protested an Air Force decision to award a contract for IETM
          system development to CTI under the RFP. We dismissed the protest after the Air
          Force notified our Office that it was taking corrective action. The agency then

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